Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.hardware:7155 comp.sys.mac.misc:6587 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bh11+ From: bh11+@andrew.cmu.edu (Braddock John Hathaway) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: grayscale on a DeskWriter? Message-ID: Date: 10 Dec 90 11:47:23 GMT Organization: Class of '90, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 42 I was just wondering ... if it was possible to get any kind of grayscale output on a DeskWriter. The manual (page 4-8, paragraph 3) makes reference to using grayscale on a sample document "The use of grayscale draws attention to the bullet items and the headings ..." From what I've been experiencing in terms of output, I imagine that this is a mistake and that the two different grays they show are based on closer and wider dot patterns (as is used to give darker and lighter grays in 'patterns' on monochrome macintoshes). Does it matter if the video that you're using is monochrome (1-bit)? I don't think that it does ... the image is the image, the software is the software, and the printer (and driver) is the printer ... why should it matter what the monitor shows? What I'm trying to do is get the best possible printout of a color snapshot that I made on a color machine. I've been trying to print it out from my machine (mac II with a 1-bit 19in display) to a DeskWriter. One of the snapshots that I sent to a LaserWriter IINT using LW driver 6.0 dealt very nicely with converting the color to gray ... but it took 20 minutes to print the page!!! (I suspect a lack of memory in the LW itself is the cause of the unreasonable delay) If I'm wrong about any of the above points, please correct me. If I'm right about any of the points that I'm guessing at, tell me that too! Anyway, I'll appreciate any help I can get on this. Thanks, Brad -------------- potentially long .sig file ahead ------------- Hear about the computer scientist who died while washing his hair? The instructions on the shampoo bottle read: Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Brad Hathaway work phone: (412) 268-8454 email:bh11@andrew.cmu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------