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From: kik@wjh12.harvard.edu (Ken Kreshtool)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Printing colors on an Imagewriter II
Keywords: Imagewritter color print
Message-ID: <600@wjh12.harvard.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 02:55:46 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.034552.15086@panix.uucp> <1991May3.210026.16438@santra.uucp>
Reply-To: kik@wjh12.UUCP (Ken Kreshtool)
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <1991May3.210026.16438@santra.uucp> jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:
>In article <1991Apr30.034552.15086@panix.uucp> jhawk@panix.uucp (John Hawkinson) writes:
>>Could someone explain to me how I can print a color PICT file to an Imagewriter
>>II w/ a color ribbon? (i.e. what applications/utilities are necessary)? No
>>applications I have seem to want to print in color, except Word 4.0, which 
>>simply prints letters/text in color, and not PICTs. Thanx in advance.
>
>Freedom of Press renders most things the Macintosh can print onto a
>really large selection of printers. It supports any QuickDraw printers
>(even in color) and has special support for the ImageWriter II.
>
>This is a commercial program and it requires about 2MB to run
>reasonably. It's really a PostScript interpreter and does a very good
>job with color printouts on our HP PaintWriter XL. If you use any
>decent page layout of graphics programs, you'll probably benefit from
>FoP. The times font clone that comes with it leaves something to be
>desired, but it's ok for the price (besides, ATM is supported, so the
>quality might be better with ATM).

Check out Freedom of Press Light -- $55 from MacConnection.  It comes with
fewer fonts and supports fewer printers than the non-light version, but that
seems to be the only difference.  It supports the ImageWriter II.  I agree that
the Times font clone is not great (too heavy), but that's no big deal -- you
can get rid of it and use ATM with your outline fonts instead (if you got
some).  Dunno if it works in color on the ImageWriter II, but I bet so.  And
MacConnection will let you try it with a 30-day money back guarantee, about
which they tend to be superb.  I use FoP Light with my IIsi and DeskWriter for
stuff that absolutely positively has to be postscripted, and it's great.
Powerful software at a terrific price.  Dunno why more people don't know about
it (most folk, including a recent sidebar in MacWorld, only seem to know about
the $250 non-light package).  The only downsides I've found to FoP is that it
is HUGE, as Juri mentions, and that the tech support tends to be grouchy.

Ken Kreshtool
kik@wjh12.harvard.edu