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From: mario@hp-sdd.hp.com (Mario Alvarez)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Questions On HP Paint Jet Color Printer
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Date: 8 May 89 19:51:54 GMT
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In article <18058@cup.portal.com> RUDI_ZEUS_SACHENBACHER@cup.portal.com writes:
>I'm Considering The Purchase Of A Color Printer For My Mac II based
>System and am looking at the Hewlett Packard "Paint Jet" Color Printer
>(Part Number 3630A) with the serial Mac Interface Kit. My System has
>a 16" RasterOps color display and i use Pixel Paint as my primary art program.
>I would appreciate hearing from anyone with experience on this COLOR 
>
>and this printer would cost approx. $1300, and privides 180 dots per inch.
>Any Help Will Be Greatly Appreciated. Thank You !
>
>  
> 
>
In general the HP PaintJet along with the interface kit is a very good
solution to satisfy your color printing needs on a MAC II. I have printed
some images with Pixel Paint and there are a few issues that you should
be aware of.  The interface kit limits the number of colors that the 
HP PaintJet can produce to 256.  As a result you might experience some
banding in your final output.  For example, if on the screen you have
a suttle shading from light to dark blue, the PaintJet will only output
four different shades.  If anyone has any further questions regarding the
HP PaintJet and the Mac interface kit please feel free to send me email
at:

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I work for Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division and was involved with
the development of the Macintosh interface kit.