Re: Color (colour!) printing on IIgs

[Dain Neater <dneater@inebraska.com>]

I have printed in colour to an EPSON stylus Color 740 from Print Shop GS.
The key is use the Epson LQ 2500 driver.  One slight problems is that the
Printing starts slight past where it should and the printing goes onto the
next page, which kind of makes it useless.  It does the same thing when I
print in Harmonie is GS/OS

Anyone know why it would do this?

Dain Neater

This is done with an EPSON hooked to a Grappler +.



> From: Al Crout <acrout@vcn.bc.ca>
> Organization: Vancouver CommunityNet
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Date: 21 Mar 2000 22:56:26 GMT
> Subject: Re: Color (colour!) printing on IIgs
> 
> Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
> : adrianw@ise.canberra.edu.au (Dr A.P. Whichello) wrote:
> 
> :>Hi all,
> :>
> :>Long time no write. My IIgs has passed on to my son. He's typing his
> :>first school project on it and wants to print the text in colour. I've
> :>put a colour riibbon in the Imagewriter II, but the dithering seems to
> :>make all the colours look awful. Is there any way of convincing a text
> :>processor like Hermes, Coolwriter or even Appleworks GS use only the
> :>pure colours on the Imagewriter's ribbon and not to try dithering them
> :>into mud? Thanks in advance,
> :>
> :>Adrian.
> 
> : That's why I've been trying to tell users that no color printing
> : to Epson Stylus or Canon BubbleJet printers through Harmonie
> : is no big deal.  I've seen color printing on the IIGS and have
> : decided that it just does not look that good.  Even if I had a
> : DeskJet, I would most likely not use color print.
> 
> : That said, however, you may want to replace your IWII with a
> : DeskJet or a DeskWriter.  I've seen DeskWriters at Goodwill
> : going for $10.  Color DeskWriters.  With the addition of the
> : Harmonie drivers from http://www.crl.com/~joko and your
> : existing IWII cable, you can get better color that the IWII can
> : provide.
> 
> : The reason?  When colors dither on an ink-jet printer, the
> : ink actually mixes resulting in a blend.  In an impact dot
> : matrix printer like the IWII, the dots remain separate.  The
> : mixed colors of the ink-jet printer still does not look exactly
> : vibrant, but it is infinitely better than what the IWII provides.
> 
> -- 
> What GS/OS system is the Imagewriter II working from?
> 
> -- al
>