How do you tell if colour is available

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From: Philip Gladstone
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 1991 01:51

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Can anybody tell me how you tell if colour is available on the printer
at print time?

I want to be able to produce a postscript file that uses colour (if
available) and various cross-hatchings if not. 

Note: doing    
                1 0 0 setrgbcolor currentrgbcolor
 
doesn't tell you anything. On my monochrome system that returns '1 0 0'.

Philip
--
Philip Gladstone         Dev Lab Europe, Data General, Cambridge, UK

    Listen three eyes, don't you try and outweird me, I get
    stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

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