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From: blbates@AERO36.LARC.NASA.GOV (Brent Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB)
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Subject: Re: Color Printers for SGI's
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Date: 16 May 91 14:26:39 GMT
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  Neither of the machines I mentioned are PostScript machines.
The Tektronics takes bitmapped images as either color mapped or RGB values.
The printer has its own intenal way of doing the dithering and has several
options for gamma correction.  As I said we are very pleased with the results.
We rarely use it for lines drawings, most are shaded images.  All images are
a screen type dump, so they are bitmapped images.
  I don't know what the internal format of the Kodak unit is, but, the images
I saw looked so good you would think they were photos.

  Brent L. Bates				Phone:(804) 864-2854
  NASA-Langley Research Center			  FAX:(804) 864-6792
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  Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
  E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov