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Re: How to setup true color PS printing? [message #10686]

Thu, 15 January 1998 00:00

offenbrg
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Registered: August 1993

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hahn@hrz.tu-darmstadt.de (Norbert Hahn) writes:

> Hi,

> I want to print RGB images on a dye sublimation printer. This has a
> PostScript Level 2 interpreter. What parameters are needed to print
> a true colour picture?

There are several ways to handle this. The way I deal with it is as
follows:

device,/color,bits=8,xsize=,ysize=...
tv,true=3,[[[red_gun]],[[green_gun]],[[blue_gun]]]

This creates an NxMx3 array, then displays it in true-color format
using the 3rd index as the "R,G,B" index.

Joel

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