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- From: kelley@kiwi.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu (Kelley Wittmeyer)
- Subject: Re: NeXTColor Printer -- MAJOR DISSAPOINTMENT !!!
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:35:47 GMT
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- > Is this bad color output occur when you are printing CMYK colors,
- Pantone
- > colors, or other (RGB, HSB, etc)? It might be hard or impossible to
- tell
- > depending on the app. Which app was this in? Also, are you using coated
- > paper?
- >
-
- bill thorson and i tested the pantone against 'NeXT' colors
- using AppsoftDraw. we made a bunch of color boxes of rgb and
- cmy and printed the document. the pantone colors were very close.
- the 'NeXT' colors were not close at all. we printed on coated
- paper.
-
- i guess the difficulty we have is that we run data through a
- plotting package called ncar graphics which does not support
- pantone. so color bars we generate on the screen that have
- distinctive colors at each level, do not show up as disctinct
- colors on the printout. you cannot differentiate between
- some color levels. this, of course, can be solved by just
- trial and error of getting a good color balance for the printer.
-
- another group here that bill is helping print images, some
- of which they do not make. so they would really like what comes
- out the printer to be close to what they see on the screen.
-
- kelley wittmeyer
- dept of atmospheric science
- colorado state university
-