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From: palmer@unc.UUCP (Thomas C. Palmer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: ImageWriter II: color printing from existing software?
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Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 09:55:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 13 09:55:17 1985
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Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
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    I'm planning on getting the new ImageWriter and was thinking
about what I could do to get the thing to print in color from existing
software.  The user's manual gives the escape codes for each color.  Is
there any reason why I can't write a DA that allows the user to chose
the color the printer will subsequently print in; i.e. by writing the 
appropriate escape code to the printer port?  My main concern is that
the printer routines in existing software completely initialize the
printer based on user/default settings and my escape code would be
overwritten.  Any ideas?
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-Tom            Thomas C. Palmer
palmer@unc      decvax!mcnc!unc!palmer