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- From: dave@gergo.tamu.edu (Dave Martin)
- Subject: Re: Stylewriter and Greyscale?
- Message-ID: <20NOV199207053860@gergo.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M University
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:05:00 GMT
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- In article <Bxx0B8.y7@netnews.jhuapl.edu>, ygor@aplexus.jhuapl.edu (Daniel E. White (F2C)) writes...
- } Honestly, I do not thiink the SW is capable of greyscale. It's a black
- }and white printer. You might achieve it with dot-screen, but it won't be
- }the same.
-
- I believe (though I may be mistaken) that what the original post was asking
- was essentially how to get the StyleWriter to halftone a gray or color image.
- Apple still has not developed a driver for the SW which will do this -- they
- claim that you can get halftones from any program which does the halftoning
- itself (which are very few and often limited -- PageMaker only halftones
- TIFF images). If I print a color image from Canvas, for instance (or one with
- Canvas' grayscale fill pattern -- or any pattern, for that matter) the color
- image comes out mostly black (non-white colors print as black), and the fills
- are low resolution (the pattern is bitmapped at 72dpi rather than the SW's
- 360dpi).
- I've been meaning to check into the BetterWriter drivers -- anyone know
- first hand if they can do what Apple has seen fit not to?
-
- - Dave Martin - Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M -
- - DAVE@GERGA.TAMU.EDU - DBM@AOL.COM -- My views, my life, my right... -
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