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- From: kucerarj@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Ryan J Kucera)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: NeXTColor Printer -- MAJOR DISSAPOINTMENT !!!
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 17:12:51 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
- Lines: 40
- Message-ID: <1dbkmjINNic4@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- References: <Nov04.203130.60902@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Reply-To: kucerarj@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Ryan J Kucera)
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- In article <Nov04.203130.60902@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- thorson@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Bill Thorson) writes:
- >
- > We have one of the NeXTColor printers and are extreamly
- > dissapointed with it. It was ordered right when the
- > printer and 3.0 were announced. Right now we're thinking
- > of sending them it back because it just will not due.
- >
- > NeXT promoted 3.0 and the Color printer saying that with
- > their new Pantone color system and the NeXTColor printer
- > you finally have a wysiwyg color system. Colors that you
- > see on the screen is what you get on the printer. THIS
- > IS VERY FAR FROM THE TRUTH.
- >
- > The colors on this printer are all screwed up.
- > Blue comes out purple. Gray has a red tint. Yellow and
- > magenta seem to be too deep. And green seems a little on
- > the dark side. All images come out both with some wrong
- > colors and way too dark.
- >
- > One of our old HP PaintJets at only 180dpi produces a
- > much more accurate and high quality picture using
- > ghostscript. We are considering getting one of the newer
- > HP's with 300dpi so we can get some quality.
- >
- > If anyone knows a way to fix this Color printer please
- > let us know. There is nothing in the manual about adjusting
- > color on this thing.
- >
- > Bill
-
- I have one of the first color printers also and I have noticed also that
- the colors are off. Actually all I have noticed is that the blues are
- off. Regular tiffs print out fine. I am very impressed by the output of
- tiffs. I think it has to be a bug with the driver or with postscript. I
- don't think it is the printer. Hopefully NeXT knows of the problem and
- will fix it.
-
- Ryan Kucera
- kucerarj@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
-