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Subject: Re: Graphics IFF File to Printer (Direct Dump)
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Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 16:27:08 EDT
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> I am looking for a program that takes a IFF Dpaint or compatable file and
> dumps it directly to the printer without first having to put the image up
> on the screen.
>
 [Ed. stuff about how the picture on the printer isn't quite right edited out]
> 
> 	solution:	By allowing the user to specify resolution increments
> 			you can produce a more accurate rendition of the
> 			image.

> 	If anyone has written a graphics dump program that follows this
> 	phislophy, please E-Mail me or post the sources.
> 
> 	Hopefully, EA Dpaint and AEGIS Images will get their printer dump
> 	routines in-order.  As of this date, their just a cludge!
> 
> Dave Whitlock

Actually Dave, most people use the Amiga printer driver to dump the image
and have very little control of how the printer "renders" it. The 
philosophy being that the person who wrote the printer driver would make
it produce the best possible rendition and the programmer need not worry
about that aspect of creating an image. I don't know of an easy (read
portable) way of going around the driver. 

--Chuck