Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Paint Jet Printers
Message-ID: <10076@gryphon.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 88 23:14:00 GMT
References: <1614@fbog.UUCP> <5660026@hpcvca.HP.COM>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <5660026@hpcvca.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes:

(I agree with everything else)

>The quality of colors in dies is purely subjective.  There is no
>standard.

No. Look up section 17.3.2 in Foley and Van Dam, entitled ``The CIE
Chromaticity diagram''.

>I am looking at the colors now.  I am suprised at your complaint.
>They look really good to me.  The red looks, well, red.

What are you comparing them against ?  Try juxtiposing them with 
output from Tek's 4692 ink jet printer samples that you can get
at any graphics trade show.

Their reds, are, well, redder.

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