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- From: eauu018@orion.oac.uci.edu (Glenn Kaino)
- Subject: Re: HP 550 C printer -- color quality?
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- References: <1993Jan25.005736.28956@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 09:12:42 GMT
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
-
- In article <1993Jan25.005736.28956@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
- avery@ccrma.stanford.edu (Avery Wang) wrote:
- >
- > Hi-
- > Has anyone tried to print scanned color photos on a HP 550 C printer? I've
- > never seen such a printout and find the demo setup rather suspicious. The
- > Bookstore here says that they're not allowed to hook up the demo model to a
- > computer to print anything besides the built-in print demo. What you do get
- > with the demo printout is some solid color bar graphs and spots of pure
- > colors. I'm not too impressed by that. What I really would like to see is
- > the result of printing a scanned image of, say, a macaw parrot. Unless their
- > marketing people are just dumb, I suspect that the printer isn't capable of
- > printing more than solid regions of color.
- >
- > On the other hand, I saw the new IBM color printer, and they printed out a
- > nice picture of a watermill in a forest scene. I think they use the same
- > Canon print engine as the NeXT color printer.
- >
- > Comments?
- >
- > -Avery
-
- Ive seen a demo at my school of some picture of a wooden pencil (the yellow
- kind) that was on some kind of wet surface... nice picture... and it came
- out pretty good... Its dithered pretty badly, but all in all, good for the
- cheap price... NOT just color bars....
-
- Glenn
-