Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!brahms.udel.edu!sharris From: sharris@chopin.udel.edu (Scott A Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Color printing Message-ID: <17027@chopin.udel.edu> Date: 1 May 91 19:24:55 GMT References: <1991Apr30.180952.30225@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 66 In article <1991Apr30.180952.30225@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2hnemarrow@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: >In article , ag0514@csc.albany.edu (Andy Goldstein) writes: >> I have a GS with 1.5M and sys 5.04, and an IW2. Since I got 5.04 I have not >> been able to print color. The Chroma "pop-up" in the Print window, always has >> color dimmed. Does anybody have a clue as to why this is? > >Apparantly, someone at Apple thought GS users were too ignorant to know whether >or not they have a color ribbon in the printer, so the print manager checks to >see if there is a color ribbon present. Unfortunately, the print manager isn't >nearly as bright as the average color-blind wumpus and isn't always right. To >fix the problem, just click the cancel button and turn the printer off and on >again. That usually works for me. > >Yes I'm being sarcastic, but I don't get enough sleep. Now, leave me alone. >-- > _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ >' | This ' > This recession too shall pass, but Congress goes on forever.| Space > ------------------------------------ | for > 2hnemarrow@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu | -- Louis Rukeyser | Rent > PPark@volta.ece.ukans.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > * Christopher Robin at Bloom County BBS, Dearborn, MI: 313-582-0888 > Preston Park at Macrocosm BBS, Lawrence, KS: 913-841-9446 Well this fixed the problem trying to print in Apple Works GS, but I have always had the same problem when trying to print with Paintworks Gold. when I tell it to print in either b/w or in color it just form feeds the paper and gives me a pretty white sheet of paper. Any solution to this one? Scott d e a d s p a c e . -- Scott A. Harris sharris @ brahms.udel.edu sharris @ chopin.udel.edu HIO01142 @ udelvm.udel.edu harris @ freezer.it.udel.edu 71311,2700 @ CompuServe s.harris12 @ GEnie