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From: maymudes@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (David M. Maymudes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: The New LaserWriter Driver and Gray-Scale bitmaps
Keywords: printing laserwriter grayscale
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Date: 21 Apr 89 14:42:05 GMT
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Reply-To: maymudes@husc4.UUCP (David M. Maymudes)
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I read on the net that Apple has announced a new version of the LaserWriter 
Driver.  (Version 6.0, I believe.)  According to the posting, the new driver
provides support for printing 8/24/32-bit color images on color printers,
and grayscale images on b/w printers.

Does anyone know exactly what the new driver does and how it is used?  

(A program I'm working on currently does a hand-conversion into Postscript,
then uses PostScript facilities for dealing with gray-scale images.  It
doesn't seem terribly portable, and has a tendency to stop working whenever
a new printer driver comes out.  I didn't write it.)

Disclaimer: I'm not sure the new driver even exists, much less what it does.


						--David Maymudes

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