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- From: jeh@raster.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
- Subject: Re: ImageMaster <-> ADPro printings
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 12:20:34 GMT
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- blackbelt@cup.portal.com (Ben - Williams) writes:
- : Imagemaster has 24-bit capability when used with the Amiga's printer drivers.
- : It does things a little differently, so as to be able to do 24-bit printing
- : even on the 1.3 printer drivers. Basically, you need to jack up the rez of
- : the image you want to print as high as possible (by scaling it) before
- : printing. THis provides the extra resolution that is dithered into the
- : 24-bit accurate output.
-
- Ben, could you explain in more detail (any detail, really) what kind of
- data Imagemaster sends to the printer, and how that's related to parameters of
- the picture and the printer preferences? I'm trying to get a Tek 4693D
- working for someone, and printing from Imagemaster works ok, but there are
- no printing controls (or documentation) in IM, and before I recommend this to
- him, I'd like to be able to tell him exactly what he has to do to adjust the
- size or aspect ratio, or get 24-bit accurate output. (And with an expensive
- one-use ribbon, I don't want to do a lot of test prints.)
-
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- Ed Hanway --- jeh@raster.kodak.com
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