Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveb
From: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Colour output technology, was(Re: Structured Graphics Standard)
Keywords: Color Lasers Tektronix Oho?  We Sell 'em, ya know...
Message-ID: <4950@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 88 19:43:18 GMT
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Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <7457@gryphon.CTS.COM> jdm@gryphon.CTS.COM (John Mesiavech) writes:
>
>Dave;
> 
>Points:
>
>1) True, base lists for $8,999.95.  You then need an interface and an 
>   additional 4MB RAM to print a full 8.5" x 11" page, bringing the
>   total cost to $11,999,95 before tax.  Remember, I work in a store
>   where we SELL the things.
> 
	Hmmm, Tektronix told me that the base was $8000.00 and that you
        only needed the extra memory (and cost) if you wanted to go to
        4 users.  But if you actually sell them then I guess you may be
	more up on the situation than I am. :^)

>2) The Tek driver for WB 1.3 has serious problems (won't do subtle shades
>   of either blue or green, output appears matted).  We were a test site.
>   The problem has been reported to both Tek and CBM.
> 
	Yes, the Tektronix_4693D is a very strange beast.  It wants the
SOURCE data sent to it not the usually pre-filtered stuff that I send to
all other printers.  It wants to do ALL the imaging itself which takes
almost all of the control away from the driver.  The only thing you can
do with the driver is color correction (which may help your colors a bit).
Tektronix has made a ROM change just recently which does improve the
imaging (or so I've been told).

	You say that you are/were a test site for the printer and driver.
That's strange, I never had an external Tektronix_4693D test site.  Were
you doing this thru Tektronix?

	Regards, D.B.

	PS. The latest driver (which Tektronix is playing with) now supports
strip printing.  This means that it now works with Professional Page,
ProWrite, Shakespeare, Excellence, and DeluxePhotoLab (to name a few).