Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ihlpm!nevets From: nevets@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Steven R Ringwood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Canon FP-510, Color Printers Keywords: Color Printers Message-ID: <2638@ihlpm.ATT.COM> Date: 30 Nov 88 14:37:31 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 58 I have been trying to decide on a new color printer for some time and have some questions and also some notes on a new Canon printer. First the questions: 1) Has any bodyheard of/used a Canon FP-510? (See below for some notes on it). 2) I have been primarily looking at the HP-Paintjet and the Xerox 4020 (and now the Canon FP-510). What I want is a printer there produces good quality and color. (I currently am using a JX-80). My price range is $1000 - $2000. Any suggustions on a printer. 3) If i decide on the Canon FP-510, does anyone know of a printer driver (1.3) for it?. How would I make one, or is there some one out there who will do it? Now the Canon FP-510 It sounds like a nice printer and sounds like it should work well with the Amiga. If I understood the price right it retails at $1500. I plan to check it out this Friday if I can find one in the area. The following information comes from Canon and is reproduced without permission. 160 Pixels per inch, with 64-step Gradation The Remarkable Super High Resolution Image Printer FULL COLLOR PRINTER FP-510 .. auto-capping mechanism ... RGB, CMY, color paller, or B/W modes can be selected as image data .... Gradation has been improved by providing cyan and magenta colors in three types of ink differentiated by density: thick, medium and light. The FP-510 achieves high-density images and abundant gradations by using analog modulation through dot diameter variation and by light and dark ink. Drop-on-demand type ink-jet printing Color representation: 260,000-color: 2-color, 4-color, 16-color, 256-color (pallet) .. Centronics type (interface) ... ====================================================================== Thanks in advance for any information Steven Ringwood, ihlpm!nevets, (312)-979-5161