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- From: PENNY@brownvm.brown.edu (Penny Theodore)
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- Subject: Re: What software for a graphic artist?!?
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- Date: 18 Nov 1992 14:59:42 GMT
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- > The biggest problem, of course, is output. For bitonal or limited halftone
- > work, the current crop of ink jet or laser printers is pretty good. However,
- > for serious color work, the types of printers generally for personal use are
- > really only "draft" quality at best. For work that's being prepared for
- > commercial production, there is software to produce color separations suitable
- > for four-color process printing. However, for single copies, I don't know of
- > a good hardcopy solution.
-
- I would recommend the high end IRIS Smartjet printers or their other inkjet
- models. A service bureau I use in Boston has these and the output is very
- high resolution when images are sent in color postscript format from
- Photoshop. They claim that effective dpi is 1800! I would tend to belive
- it, as images from Painter and Photoshop come out like color photos, many
- people I show them to cannot detect any pixels and don't realize they're
- digital images. Cost per print where I go is $35.
-
- Penny Theodore
- Penny@brownvm.brown.edu
- Opinons are my own :)
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