[comp.sys.amiga.tech] Paint Jet Printers

richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (12/29/88)

In article <5660026@hpcvca.HP.COM> charles@hpcvca.HP.COM (Charles Brown) writes:

(I agree with everything else)

>The quality of colors in dies is purely subjective.  There is no
>standard.

No. Look up section 17.3.2 in Foley and Van Dam, entitled ``The CIE
Chromaticity diagram''.

>I am looking at the colors now.  I am suprised at your complaint.
>They look really good to me.  The red looks, well, red.

What are you comparing them against ?  Try juxtiposing them with 
output from Tek's 4692 ink jet printer samples that you can get
at any graphics trade show.

Their reds, are, well, redder.

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