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From: chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Ian Chai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: How do I print in color?????
Message-ID: <1991May22.020326.28744@hawk.cs.ukans.edu>
Date: 22 May 91 02:03:26 GMT
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Organization: University of Kansas Computer Science Dept
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In article <17635@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
>I just bought a used Imagewriter II printer.  One of the things I want
>to use it for is to print in color. 
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>My questions:
>-------------
>(1)  What am I doing wrong?
You're not using an Apple //GS 8-)
>
>(2)  Is it really so hard (from a programmer's point of view) to print
>     color on an Imagewriter II?
Beats me... since the original "black & white" quickdraw supported the
kind of color that IW2 prints, supposedly if you handed it that kind of
color PICT, it should print fine. I think that's how, for example,
Superpaint, Excel, etc prints in color.
>
>(3)  Is there some inexpensive program I can get that will at least
>     print out PICTs or some other common format?  (Any halfway reasonable
>     mapping into the few colors available will do just fine.)

Yes, get CheapColor (I think it is on Sumex... if not, ask archie -- I
know I got it from somewhere on the net so archie probably knows.)
>
>Since at least three of the programs I've tried claim in their
>documentation to be able to do this, I'm strongly inclined to believe
>that I have something set up wrong.  However, since Nisus (usually)
>prints color text just fine, I'm inclined to believe the hardware is
>not at fault, so it must be the software.

I ran into problems with a friend's copy of MacCheese too, even tho
the manual said it could handle "any color printer". (This was MacCheese
1.05, and I hear there's a newer version out now -- I decided not to get
MacCheese in the end, so I didn't investigate further.) I think what
MacCheese might have been thinking of is "any color postscript printer"
as there's a standard output language with the new postscript printer
driver handles that does color.
>
>BTW, I have seen color printing allegedly done on an Imagewriter II,
>so I know it's not impossible.
>
>This is a Mac, it's supposed to be easy, darn it!

Yeah, really! Come on, before the Windows people say, "See!"
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