Re: Color (colour!) printing on IIgs

[Al Crout <acrout@vcn.bc.ca>]

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.

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What GS/OS system is the Imagewriter II working from?

-- al