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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Color Printing with Color QuickDraw?
Keywords: Color,QMS LaserPrinter, IWII
Message-ID: <4331@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Oct 88 06:21:24 GMT
References: <6610@ut-emx.UUCP> <7322@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <7322@well.UUCP> alcmist@well.UUCP (Frederick Wamsley) writes:
>I've tried printing to an IW II with a color ribbon from several color
>Mac II programs.  The output is always black and white.  Apparently the only
>way to get color from the Imagewriter driver is to talk Classic Quickdraw
>color to it.

While that also works, the problem you are experiencing is likely related to
the fact that many older applications look at the device id returned in the
print rec, and tailor their output to them.  I.e., if the program "knows" that
it is printing on an Imagewriter, it doesn't try to use color.  This is bad
practice, as you never can tell what a new device is capable of, and is slowly
disappearing in newer applications.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)