[comp.sys.mac.system] Colour printing from an ImageWriter II

csuas@warwick.ac.uk (Jonathan Greensted (alias flash)) (04/19/91)

Dear Net,

        I've been preparing colour graphs in Microsoft Excel 2.2 and now I
want to print them to my ImageWriter.  I had always known that you could buy
colour ribbons for it, so down to my local Apple Dealer I went. 10 pounds
later I was home with my new ribbon. Now the problems started :

I'm running system 6.05
several INITs (none that have ever caused a problem before)

Excel 2.2 starts to print the graph and them it goes mad.  Suddenly random
characters in random colours.  It usually goes mad when printing in YELLOW.

I've managed to get Microsoft Word to print all the colours but only when text
in YELLOW is the last line.

I would really like to know if this is a problem anyone else has had and over
come or if APPLE make colour ribbons as a joke and I fell for it.

Please someone help, someone must know ???

Thanks in advance for all the replies.


Jonathan Greensted

[aka. flash@uk.ac.warwick.cs or csuas@uk.ac.warwick.cu ]