Re: NeXTColor Printer -- MAJOR DISSAPOINTMENT !!!

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From: Kenny Leung
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 14:48

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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.
> 

No, NeXT never claimed that the Pantone color system would give you printed colors the same as screen colors.  The screens are not calibrated for that, and usually screen calibration doesn't work that well anyway.  What Pantone is supposed to guarantee is that printed colors match Pantone colors, which you look up in a swatch book.

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Kenny Leung                      
Campus Consultant                
University of Alberta            
kenny_leung@mts.ucs.ualberta.ca 
audix x5537                    

P.S.  Sorry if this post screws up.  NewsGrazer has been doing weird things to me.creens

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