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From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Why color?
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Date: 17 Jan 91 05:22:11 GMT
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In article <91016.113104RMG3@psuvm.psu.edu> RMG3@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>
>  This question has come up in our purchasing decisions here.  Given that
>we do not have, and are not likely to get, a color printer what do we
>_need_ color for?
>...
>  So, what do you do that the absence of color would make difficult or
>impossible?  What is it that justifies spending extra money on a color
>card and monitor rather than RAM and disk space?
>
Heh, I used to be one of those hard-core B&W persons... I do mostly
publication design, and while "non-repro blue" guidelines in my DTP
package are kinda cute, they're not necessary. BUT... then I got a call
from one of my clients requesting that I do a slide show for her. The
35 slides grew to 45, 50, over 60, and I did every damn one of them on
an SE.  Did I have my fingers crossed when I sent that disk to the slide
imaging service bureau? Does a wild bear use toilet paper?

I think color slides on a B&W Mac qualifies as "difficult or impossible."
So does a digitized picture of three green seltzer bottles on my desktop,
for that matter, but somehow I don't think that's what you had in mind.

--K


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