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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
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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