gjc@portia.Stanford.EDU (George J. Chen) (09/29/89)
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Does anyone have a routine to do a fast (color) screendump from a Sun
to a COLOR postscript laserprinter?
We have a QMS COLORSCRIPT100 on loan and we are trying to
print out a Sun rasterfile (from a screendump). The only methods
that we can think of take too long to print (e.g. the color image operator).
Please mail any postings to the address below as I do not yet have
access to the newsgroups. Thanks in advance.
-Pete Olpe-
olpe@titania.etdesg.trw.com
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gjc@portia.stanford.eduaej@manyjars.wpi.edu (Allan E Johannesen) (10/11/90)
We have a Colormate PS printer from NEC here on demo for 1 day and I can't seem to find a quick way to generate color Post-Script. o The DECstation print-screen customization has a color option in the menu, but it isn't selectable... o The pbm2ps utilitity seems to strip color information out of the data stream... (I tried: fbcat -P < some-color-GIF | pbm2ps if there's something wrong with that, I'd appreciate advice) I suppose I should have been suspicious of the random utilities before the printer arrived for testing, but that's water under the bridge. I don't seem to be able to generate any color test prints. The quickest thing I can think of is to locate some archive somewhere with some color PostScript files on it just to see something come out of the printer before they take it back. Does anyone out there have anything I could use as a test print? Please just email, this posting is probably offensive enough to everyone; followups might generate flames.
phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott Robert Anderson) (11/21/90)
I am aware that color has been added to the PostScript specification found in
the original PostScript Language Reference Manual; is there a second edition in
which these capabilities are described? If not, where can I find a reference
for them?
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In article <6543@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>, phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott Robert Anderson) writes... >I am aware that color has been added to the PostScript specification found in >the original PostScript Language Reference Manual; is there a second edition in >which these capabilities are described? If not, where can I find a reference >for them? Actually color has been a feature of the PostScript language since its beginning, and the use of rgb and hsb color specifications is described in the PSLRM. Look up the operators currenthsbcolor, currentrgbcolor, sethsbcolor, and setrgbcolor for more information. The recently announced Level 2 adds support for additional color models, notably CMYK and some flavor of CIE. This will be documented in the 2nd edition of the PSLRM, which is supposed to be published in mid-December, I believe.
brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) (11/28/90)
In article <6543@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott Robert Anderson) writes:
<I am aware that color has been added to the PostScript specification found in
<the original PostScript Language Reference Manual; is there a second edition in
<which these capabilities are described? If not, where can I find a reference
<for them?
Gee, my 1985 edition descibes color just fine. See section 4.8 and the setgray,
setrgbcolor and sethsbcolor procedures in the reference section.
Has Adobe added more color procedures?
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rutgers/ decvax!nicmad/ INET:<@spool.cs.wisc.edu,@astroatc:brown@vidiot>jhardin@stat.tamu.edu (James Hardin) (02/12/91)
Hi folks, I have been reading this newsgroup for some time and I know this has been discussed before, however, at that time I had no vested interest. I am a poor grad student in need of printing out color postscript. All of this has come up with my new assignment to print out color contour maps of the global temperature field. Without checking to see what kind of hardware I had available, I plunged ahead developing software that outputs postscript. Now I find I have nowhere to print out my pictures. My only hope is that somewhere there is a "reasonably" priced postscript printer and I will be able to (somehow) convince my department to purchase one. So, ..... Has anyone had any experience with using color postscript printers? Just how expensive are they? Are there any I should avoid? Are there any I should definitely consider? E-mail is appreciated or post to the net. If I get a number of replies, I will gladly summarize to the net and, of course, will honor any "me too" requests I receive. Kindest regards, James Hardin jhardin@stat.tamu.edu
toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) (02/13/91)
In article <12022@helios.TAMU.EDU> jhardin@stat.tamu.edu (James Hardin) writes: > ... Has anyone had any experience with using color postscript printers? > Just how expensive are they? Are there any I should avoid? Are there any I > should definitely consider? One possibility is to look into local print shops. They may be able to generate your color printouts for you and save you a lot of money. Be SURE to print it out on a black and white printer first to know it is ok! And insist that they get it right before you pay. That is, the imaged area differs between printers (unfortunately) and fonts also are not constant, so you will want to see that the final image is what you want before you pay. We got a Tektronix colorquick printer, which is just under $2k list price, and then bought Freedom of Press software to convert from PostScript to the colorquick format. Freedom of Press (800) 873-4367, makes converters for lots of printers, so you can get a cheap printer and a little software to do the job. It's got to be slower than a color printer, but it may be less costly. See the review in MacUser January 1990, page 77. There is a rival to Freedom of the press called Tscript that I have not used. See MacUser August 1990 page 62. My technician also tells me that Freedom of the Press Light is a budget version they just came out with. Anyway, our colorquick makes lovely graphs! > Kindest regards, > James Hardin > jhardin@stat.tamu.edu Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 toms@ncifcrf.gov