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Re: NeXTColor Printer -- MAJOR DISSAPOINTMENT !!!

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From: Nathan F. Janette
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 03:33
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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.
> 
>   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.

We have one too, and the quality of it's output seems to
depend upon knowing what colors will print well... which is a
bit disappointing.  My simple attempts at printing color
have varied results, but some of the sample files that
come with Appsoft Draw look very impressive indeed. 

--
Nathan Janette
PPP link from hilbert.csb.yale.edu

Please reply to: nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu (NeXT)
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