Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Colour output technology, was(Re: Structured Graphics Standard) Message-ID: <7267@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 25 Sep 88 02:43:35 GMT References: <927@mystefix.liu.se> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 28 In article <927@mystefix.liu.se> mikhe@mystefix.liu.se (Mike Henry) writes: > > 2. I don't know of one Laserprinter (with or without PostScript) > that outputs hardcopies in COLOR. True enough. You can't buy one right now, but they do exist. I once talked to Brian Reid about them, in May: ``Yeah, I've seen them. They're very slow, about 3 minutes to image after you say SHOWPAGE. Also they're going to be very expensive. > $25K. There's a limited market for them - It's basically the vanity market. They can't do volume, so people will still use colour seps from a typesetter.'' > Also few copying machines > duplicate color print in color! OK other color printers > are improving their output quality, but I feel that a nice > and ordinary Draw program that outputs in Black and White > (so that you can run it through your Xerox copier and > actually DUPLICATE and DISTRIBUTE it) would do the trick. Well, we'll know in a couple of weeks. Gold Disk is supposed to be showing their draw program at Ami Expo here in L.A. -- I think you'll find there's less to me than meets the eye. richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard