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- From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
- Subject: Re: NeXTColor Printer -- MAJOR DISSAPOINTMENT !!!
- References: <Nov04.203130.60902@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.221142.7793@ms.uky.edu>
- Reply-To: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:11:42 GMT
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- 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.
- ->
-
- Are you using the coated paper...though we haven't got one (yet) I ahve
- noticed that the same picture on coated paper appears to ahve slightly
- different shades than the same image on plain paper....
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