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From: sdfusc@mac.cc.macalstr.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: 24 bit color for the Amiga
Message-ID: <1991May22.161142.584@mac.cc.macalstr.edu>
Date: 22 May 91 22:11:42 GMT
References: <5117@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> <billc.3320@cryo.UUCP> <12330@uwm.edu>
Organization: Macalester College
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In article <12330@uwm.edu>, mccube@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael P Callahan) writes:
> 
>      While we are on the subject of 24bit color for the Amiga, I too have
>      some serious questions on who and which 
> 
> 
> 1. Who will be supporting these 24bit boards for output to film and or
> high quality video- not everyone wants to own everything and I for one
> would like to know which service bureaus support Amiga 24bit (or are 
> planning to ).  These new boards aren't much good to someone who can 
> only output to 1/2" Ntsc through a supergen.
> 
> 2. Are there any print service boards that will support high quality 
> color hardcopy from Amiga 24bit iff?
> 
> These are questions I wonder about,  the only reason people point to
> (dare I say the word?)Macs,  is that it is relatively easy to find
> service bureau support.  I do truly believe in the Amiga(obligatory
> admission of guilt) and think that if there are any service bureaus
> who also support this great machine, they deserve to have their offices
> flooded with jobs, only problem is I can't find any at all.
> 
> Speak up this is a real problem.  If every time you want output you must
> emulate another "inferior platform" then before we brag about what we
> can do on our Amigas(that no one without one can see)we should pause to
> reflect on the rest of the world.
> 
> ok I know its a little heavy handed but I realy want to use my Amiga
> to make prints and films and thought a tirade would get some attention
> 
> WHO KNOWS OF ANY SERVICE BUREAUS WHICH SUPPORT AMIGA?????

	PostScript is PostScript, as far as I know.  I could be wrong, but I
know all sorts of local print services that will support Amiga if you just call
and ask.  I work for a local dealer, and we have users who send Pagestream and
ProPage output to service's all the time-- as long as something is printed to a
PostScript file, and can be converted, It'll dump almost anywhere as long as
one can get access to something that will do PostScript.  Here at college, I
even got in the habit of dumping Amiga files to our '40 NeXT's.  Finding places
that support Amiga is a breeze.  Color seps, too...its not that big of a deal. 
Most places will let you Download the file, too, though virtually every
typesetter you can find will read files off of PC disks.  Use CrossDOS.

					Doug
					SDFUSC@MACALSTR.EDU