prem@geomag.gly.fsu.edu (Prem Subrahmanyam) (04/06/91)
I have an A2000 and an OkiData Microline 292 printer. Frankly, I'm
disappointed at the mapping of screen colors to ink colors (pink is
too orange, cyan is too blue, green is too dark, purple is too pink,
etc.) in the standard printer driver. Are there any fixes to this
driver anywhere? I've tried using the color correction settings to
hopefully get a better reproduction of the screen colors, but it
seems that the color correction actually creates a reduced-palette
HAM picture on-the-fly as it prints. Why do I say this? Well, I
tried printing a HAM picture with a bright green dragon in it. The
original try yielded a dark forest green dragon in which detail was
almost completely lost. So, I color-correct the green setting. What
do I get? Red HAM fringes in the printout trailing the lighter green
color. Those fringes are not there in the original, but show up in the
color-corrected printout. Just about any HAM picture that I try while
using color correction will produce HAM fringes on the printout that do
not exist in the actual picture (another I recall is one in which a
transition from black to red had a blue fringe in the middle). I am
trying to print out these pictures for my thesis due in two days, and
I am desperate. I've even tried going into Digi-Paint and attempting
to touch up the colors, but there is no easy way to do this.
Any help would be appreciated,
---Prem Subrahmanyam (prem@geomag.gly.fsu.edu)