Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!tj
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: Color printing from Win3
Message-ID: <1991May7.174525.19087@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <1991May6.075137.10947@ugle.unit.no> <920009@hp-vcd.HP.COM>
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Date: Tue, 7 May 1991 17:45:25 GMT

>Your problem is the printer driver.  The Epson driver doesn't support
>DIBs (Device Independent Bitmaps), which are required by many apps. for

This brings up two questions...
The original post indicated that he had gotten some WfW stuff in colour
from his Epson. I presume that this would have to have been not bitmap
stuff then, and if so, what exactly is non bitmap? Text? Is ATM text not
bitmaps? Is Windows text not bitmaps? Maybe only the printers builtin
fonts will print in colour. I will experiment at home cause I have a 
colour epson. I have to admit that as soon as I found that paintbrush
wouldn't do colour on the printer I sort of stopped trying, but
Corel Draw did colour on it... hmmmm... more experiments.

The next question is, is it that hard to impliment DIBS that these major
players can't add the support to the drivers?

HP did it.
PostScript drivers do it (almost trivial there I guess)

Doesn anybody know of ANY other printer drivers for WIndows that support
colour DIBS?

thanks.

Bob, the first few lines look like an attack on what you said, they
aren't, I just want to know the differences etc. Sorry it sounds that way.