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- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.193100.121506@fourd.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
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- From: Michael_D._Murie@fourd.com
- Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:31:00 EST
- Subject: Re: HP 550 C printer -- color quality?
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- 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
-
- I have one and think it does an excellent job of printing color scans - much
- better than I thought it would. However, everything is relative, and I am
- factoring in the price and the fact that prior to this I had no way to print
- color scans except through an expensive service bureau.
- It's not photographic quality by any means, so if that's what you are looking for,
- then keep looking, but if you are prepared to accept a little less than that,
- then it can be great fun!
-
- -Michael
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