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From: stroyan@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: HP Paintjet ?
Message-ID: <5040003@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 88 20:56:55 GMT
References: <124@rna.UUCP>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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The PaintJet is very easy to use for printing RGB rasters with up to 16
colors.  It has a 16 entry RGB color map and its own dithering code.
You can just download the color map from your image and send the raster
as colormap index values.  If you want to print images with more than 16
colors, then you will need to do your own dithering.  You can set up the
color map to represent normal CMYB values and use some book dithering
algorithm.

I use a PaintJet with my Amiga at home.  The output quality is very
good, especially with the paper that HP supplies.  It works fairly well
with normal paper, such as the continous feed checks that I print from
an accounting program.  It does not work with mailing labels.  I tried
it.  It peeled them off and ate them.  What a mess.

Mike Stroyan, [hplabs!]hpfcla!stroyan