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From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Color Printing with Color QuickDraw
Message-ID: <4348@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 8 Oct 88 01:19:03 GMT
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Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <1234600010@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> emb1354@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>Yeah, no problem.  If the printer's GrafPort is opened in a color environment,
>(with color selected on the Mac][, see Monitors in Control Panel), it will be
>a CGrafPort and you can use RGBForeColor and RGBBackColor calls.

Not true.  The printer driver will open whatever kind of GrafPort it wants.
Color printers usually prefer to open CGrafPorts.  Palette management is
automatic (if you pay no attention to the Driver behind the curtain).

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)