Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!know!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!ux.acs!clarson
From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Can LWIISC do grayscale?
Message-ID: <2844@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 19:41:52 GMT
References: <STEVE.90Dec6114454@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com>
Reply-To: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Iron City, USA
Lines: 15

No laser printer can print grayscale images.  Laser printers can only print
little black dots, which can be used to print halftone simulations of greyscale
images, but cannot be used to print actual greyscale images.

As I understand it, Linotronic and other imagesetters have this same property.

You'll have to use something like a thermal printer to get actual grayscale
output.

chaz


-- 
Someone please release me from this trance.
clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu                                       AOL:Crowbone