#Color Printers
25-Oct-94 14:46:37
Sb: #130676-#Color Printers
Fm: DONALD NEWLANDS 73170,3216
To: Roger Danielsen 70323,3034
Rodger,
I saw the Pro at a show recently and couldn't see the difference on
images…but the main shortcoming of the regular old Fargo that we have is that
text and line art look really bad at 203 dpi. The 300×600 res should really
help in that department. Also, we have a lot of Mac users who are itching to
get one now that they have a PS/AppleTalk module.
If the 300 dpi mode is too slow, can you still send files at 200 or 203 dpi?
Also, FYI, after printing a lot of images on the thing, and trying a lot of
different apps and setups, we found:
1) printing from Photoshop in CMY mode gives vastly superior color,
2) plugging it into a Pentium saves a few minutes on each print
3) scaling and rotating your prints in your app prior to printing is a heck of
a lot faster than letting the Fargo driver do it for you.
I am tempted to try some of the Windows print speedup utilities, but I doubt
that they could do much on the performance front.
PrintGif is a great little utility, but the output doesn't look nearly as nice
as Windows/Photoshop and, while printing, it is only marginally faster.
-Donald