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
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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) ...

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Thanks in advance for any information

	Steven Ringwood, ihlpm!nevets, (312)-979-5161