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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