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Re: Baffled by color postscript [message #14529]

Wed, 10 March 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Kenneth P. Bowman (bowman@null.tamu) writes:

> I think you can use *colors* in the "PLOT" part of the program, but not
> 256^3 *different* colors (i.e., 24-bit).

Exactly. And the question is "why not?". My usual clandestine
sources are unusually quiet. :-)

But I'm still not sure a printer can PRINT 24-bit color.
It seems to me that even with the top-of-the-line color
printers that there must be a translation between whatever
color system into CMYK. Is it the contention of some of
the PostScript experts here that this is a function of
the printer's RIP?

Perhaps what we should be asking for is not 24-bit
PostScript printing, but something that converts 24-bit
colors into appropriate CMYK colors.

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Baffled by color postscript By: davidf on Wed, 10 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Baffled by color postscript By: bowman on Tue, 09 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Baffled by color postscript By: Liam Gumley on Tue, 09 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Baffled by color postscript By: davidf on Tue, 09 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Baffled by color postscript By: davidf on Tue, 09 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Baffled by color postscript By: Steve[2] on Tue, 09 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Baffled by color postscript By: bowman on Mon, 08 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Baffled by color postscript By: bowman on Mon, 08 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Baffled by color postscript By: bowman on Mon, 08 March 1999 00:00
		Re: Baffled by color postscript By: davidf on Mon, 08 March 1999 00:00

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