Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!ariel.unm.edu!hydra.unm.edu!kholland From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: WANTED: Full page paint program Message-ID: <1991May18.051202.17536@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 18 May 91 05:12:02 GMT Article-I.D.: ariel.1991May18.051202.17536 References: <21587@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 22 The idea behind printing color and Grey Scales is called CLOSURE. Also when you print something to a printer in color you must deal with RGB --> MYC (Red Green Blue to Magenta Yellow Cyan, which is the basic colors and comibinations). If you have a 180 DPI Color Dot-Matrix printer (like me) or any color printer for that matter [exclusing lino-tronic film printers] you must come to the reality that no matter how you slice it you always have less than 4096 colors. So consistency in pixels (unlike HAM, like VGA) is soo much better than more colors. Postscript is nice too, but you'll notice that a high-resolution color printer picture has just as much of an affect as color postscript on the same printer (try 1024X1024 on DPIII and print it out to a 8X11 sheet size and you'll get my drift). It is also much better to go with An AMIGA that can take a grey scale picture and convert it to dots when printing becuase B/W dots are harder to manage [I know, I have used M(uck)ACOS printing programs]). (You guys are probably wondering why I didn't edit this, don't want to use VI at home, it doesn't interface quite like the VT terminals at school). Well happy printing YAL.