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From: xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Deskjet Inkmun Full Color Kit?
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.193211.28722@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 19:32:11 GMT
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In article <21698@shlump.nac.dec.com>, robinson@star.enet.dec.com writes:
>
>In the May '91 issue of Amiga World "GO AMIGA" advertises:
>
>  "Deskjet Full Color
>
>   Print full color on your HP Deskjet printer!
>   Inkmun Full Color Kit.......$34.95"
>
>Does anyone know about this? How does it work and what
>software would I need to take advantage of it?
>I'm considering a used Paintjet for around $600 and wonder
>how this new (?) development affects that consideration.

   It isn't much of a big deal.  It is just a kit that allows you to 
clean empty DeskJet ink cartridges and refill them with colored ink.
The only program that I know of that will allow you to use these 
colored inks is PageStream.  You can't use the Preferences printer,
for instance, because you have to produce a color seperated output;
IE: feed the paper back in three times, once for each color.

   This will in no way obsolete the PaintJet, because the PaintJet 
will still produce results that are just as good (if not better) with
a single printing of the page.  If you only want to produce a very
occasional colored printout, look at this kit.  If you are going to
be printing a lot of color printouts, I recommend a true color printer
like the PaintJet.

>
>thanks,
>
>Dave Robinson
>robinson@star.enet.dec.com
                       
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