From: vlahos@cubism.portal.com (Harry Vlahos)
Subject: Re: NeXTColor Printer -- MAJOR DISSAPOINTMENT !!!
Organization: -Independent NeXT Developer-
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 08:26:16 GMT


I have been working with some of the new dye-sublimation
printers that have come on the market, and I must say,
if you want GREAT color (or rather, if you need GREAT
color), check out the Tektronix Phaser IISD or the 
Shinko CP-446i duy-sublimation printers.  They are 300dpi,
continuous tone, with either monochrome, 3 color, or 4 color,
ribbons.  Absolutely fantastic color output.  Much, much
better than any thermal wax transfer printers like the
NextColor printer.

The problem with thermal wax is that you can scratch the printout
and the waxy surface gets damaged.  With the dye sublimation
printers, on the other hand, the ink bleeds into the paper 
and you get a much more permanent print that is less
susceptible to damage by mishandling.

Sure would be nice if Next had an offering in that arena.
At least I wouldn't have to pay for a Postscript engine
for the printer.

Harry Vlahos
vlahos@cubism.portal.com


In article <Bx81oy.99q@news.cso.uiuc.edu> lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)  
writes:
> thorson@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Bill Thorson) writes:
> 
> 
> >  We have one of the NeXTColor printers and are extreamly
> >dissapointed with it.  It was ordered right when the
> >printer and 3.0 were announced.  Right now we're thinking
> >of sending them it back because it just will not due.
> 
> >  NeXT promoted 3.0 and the Color printer saying that with
> >their new Pantone color system and the NeXTColor printer
> >you finally have a wysiwyg color system.  Colors that you
> >see on the screen is what you get on the printer.  THIS
> >IS VERY FAR FROM THE TRUTH.
> 
> >  The colors on this printer are all screwed up.
> >Blue comes out purple.  Gray has a red tint.  Yellow and
> >magenta seem to be too deep.  And green seems a little on
> >the dark side.  All images come out both with some wrong
> >colors and way too dark.
> 
> >  One of our old HP PaintJets at only 180dpi produces a
> >much more accurate and high quality picture using
> >ghostscript.  We are considering getting one of the newer
> >HP's with 300dpi so we can get some quality.
> 
> >  If anyone knows a way to fix this Color printer please
> >let us know.  There is nothing in the manual about adjusting
> >color on this thing.
> Bill,
> I don't have any suggestions about fixing the NeXTColor printer,
> but yes, the HP500C and 550C are very nice(and cheap).  But if
> you want a True PS printer with color, you might try the
> SEIKO Personal ColorPoint PS.  Yes, it's not the fastest, but it is
> decent and PS and it has an Appletalk,serial,parallel, and SCSI
> port(for hard drive).  The comm ports are automatically polled.
> It costs ~4500.  
> 
> 
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