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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Subject: Re: Summary: Color/Not Color
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.072102.15984@csus.edu>
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- Organization: San Francisco State University
- References: <1jvkv6INN1go@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:21:02 GMT
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- In article <1jvkv6INN1go@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- arras@cobia-f.icase.edu (Michael Arras) writes:
- > Last week I asked whether or not it was possible to query a PS
- >printer to find out if it had color capabilities. The only responses I
- >received mentioned that I should check if systemdict /colorimage is known.
- >Unfortunately, this does not work.
-
- Nonexistence of colorimage merely suggests that the interpreter
- version predates PostScript Language Color Extensions. It does
- not indicate anything about the hardware characteristics.
-
- > I find it hard to believe that PS
- >does not have a built-in set of commands that can be used to find out if
- >the printer being printed on is a color printer or not.
-
- Why? PostScript is designed to be "device independent"--you're
- not supposed to CARE where your document's going.
-
- For what it's worth, Display PostScript and Level 2 have a
- "deviceinfo" operator that returns [a dictionary containing]
- information about color capabilities.
-
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