Re: PostScript output Half Toned not dithered

In article <na.6100574df0.a903c0mijas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mr John FO
Evans
<mijas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <ant2716001cbpErr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Evans
> <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is using a Colour Laser and PCL5 doesn't support Colour.
> >
> I have in front of me one of the last issues of the PCL5 information
> from HP. It includes a booklet entitled PCL5 Colour (Issue 1 May 1966).
> It would appear therefore that the latest versions of PCL5 from HP
> did/could support colour.

It did (more accurately does)

> It does not follow however that any particular printer supports colour
> under PCL5.

A printer that only prints b/w when presented with the colour data simply
ignores it and prints with black. The printer driver however tends to
produce a shade.

Lessons on how to produce a PCL document from a text driver are available.
:-)

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Steve Pampling
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