geof@imagen.UUCP (Geof Cooper) (10/14/89)
The problem (as mentioned in a previous article) is with color registration, not with actually getting the colors. You might have some success (assuming you can find the color toners you are looking for) in running the CMYK planes off onto transparencies with alignment hash marks on them and aligning them by hand (then walk over to the copy center and color-copy them). Color PostScript printing is getting dramatically cheaper. PC-based products such as QMS UltraScript PC, Release 2 -- which will be available in a few weeks -- print in color on printers like the HPPaintJet (~$1000) or Epson 2550 (~$800), and costs about $200. The color on the HPPaintJet is rather nice, at 180dpi. Sounds like the quality you are looking for. The product can also be used to create color separations on a 300 dpi printer. - Geof Cooper (biased advocate of UltraScript).