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- From: lhighbar@umabnet.ab.umd.edu (Lane A Highbarger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Studio Printer
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 10:34:43 -0500
- Organization: University of Maryland at Baltimore
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- Roland Knecht <roland.knecht@ubs.ch> wrote:
-
- >>What I want is the ability to print a document from pagestream
- >>with the images contained in the doc.. printing in 256 shades.
- >>Will studio printer do this.. or is there simply no way to get the 256 shade
- >>output from pagestream? (that's version 2.2 by the way).
- >
- >PageStream has a lot of "private" Printer-Drivers that do not make
- >use of the prt: device (and the wb drivers). But its possible to have
- >your documents printed out using the Studio driver (preferences-driver
- >from PageStream).
-
- But 2.2 cannot use the custom dither patterns built into Studio. There
- are many limitations with printing from 2.2 with studio (at least from
- what the Studio manual sez)
-
- >The easiest solution would be to upgrade PageStream to version 3.0i.
- >PS 3.0 supports FS-dithering for Non-Postscript output what gives you
- >excellent results (if you have the patience to wait for the pages..)
- >I think, upgrading your PS 2.2 to 3.0 shouldn't cost much more than
- >buying Studio.
-
- And the Studio driver is better than the PgS driver.
-
- Later,
-
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