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- From: /G=Owen/S=Smith/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: High res Colour Printing in RISC OS 3.1
- Message-ID: <ARM200-921218145909-63C24CA9*@MHS>
- Sender: /G=Owen/S=Smith/O=SJ-Research/ADMD=INTERSPAN/C=GB/@mhs-relay.ac.uk
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:59:09 GMT
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- maupb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr J L Saunders) wrote:
-
- (In reply to my stuff about not doing interlaced colour dot matrix
- printing.)
-
- >Why not just print the yellow first? This seems obvious to me.
-
- Indeed for horizontal interlacing this is actually what happens. I realised
- this while writing the technical documentation for the PRM. So 360 by 180
- would be safe, but it'll probably still look bad because 8 head passes is
- over the top. Anyway 180 by 180 on a 24 pin printer is fine, what isn't is
- 120 by 72 on an 8 pin printer, which is the maximum resolution without
- interlacing. 240 by 72 would also be feasible, but what you really want is
- 120 by 144 which is vertically interlaced and so the yellow would overprint
- on dark colours. To print the yellow first, you'd need to reverse feed the
- paper by 1/216". A lot of printers don't support reverse paper feed at all,
- and those that do tend to do it inacurrately. The sequence would be:
-
- Yellow pass, forward paper feed 1/216 inch
- Yellow pass, reverse paper feed 1/216 inch
- Cyan pass, forward paper feed 1/216 inch
- Cyan pass, reverse paper feed 1/216 inch
- Magenta pass, forward paper feed 1/216 inch
- Magenta pass, reverse paper feed 1/216 inch
- Black pass, forward paper feed 1/216 inch
- Black pass, forward paper feed 23/216 inch
-
- Any bets on whether the paper will still be remotely close to where it ought
- to be after this sequence? Whiplash and mechanical tolerances may well mean
- that the reverse feeds do nothing at all and just take up the slack in the
- gearing instead. Many of the newest dot matrix printer models have removed
- support for the reverse paper feed command completely or have written DO NOT
- USE in big letters in the manual. So using it does not seem like a good
- idea.
-
- Owen.
-