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From: chryses@xurilka.UUCP (Phong Co)
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Subject: Re: Color printing from Win3
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Date: 8 May 91 21:29:03 GMT
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On May 7, tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) wrote:

>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.

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

I've got the Sharp JX-730 Color InkJet printer, with a Win3 driver.
The first version of the driver would cause an UAE whenever I started
an application which could print.  It was also over 500KB!  The next
version I got was down to about 200KB.  It works OK, I got PaintBrush
to print out some .BMP files in color without much trouble.
CorelDraw came out pretty good too, although you can probably get
better results if you specify a PostScript printer and save the
output in a file, then sending it through a PostScript interpreter.
I use Freedom of Press, which also supports the JX-730.

Just a curiosity, since I never tried it: what happens if you try to
print a color file (ie., from Corel or PaintBrush) to a B/W
dot-matrix?  To an HP LaserJet?



Phong.


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