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#Color Printer?

    07-Dec-93 20:03:54
Sb: #124130-#Color Printer?
Fm: THOMAS N. WHEELER 73766,1633
To: Wolf Faust 100116,1070
Wolf, The folks at Fargo say they have an Amiga driver that will be completed soon that will allow dye sublimation printing on the Amiga. Are you stating that this driver will not work with AdPro or any other program that uses the Printer Preferences? I have no doubt that the Canon BJC600 produces very nice color output. However, I really don't like the state that ink jet printers (or at least my HP 500C) leavee the paper in –wrinkled. I also don't like the tendency of ink jet prints to smear if you are not very careful to let them dry. For me, however, the decisive feature of the Primera is the ability to do dye sublimation prints on the Primera. This last weekend I printed several PhotoCD's using Windows and PhotoMagic (a part of the Graphics Works program by Micrografx) using dye sublimation on the Primera. I thought the results were very very good –not quite the equal of a good photograph but very close to it. And I spent several years making 16 X 20 in. color prints from transparencies taking on a Hasselblad using Cibachrome and Kodak materials. However, I have no experience with expensive dyde sublimation printers, but, intuitively, I would never expect the Premiera's dye sublimation printing quality to equal that of printers costing $10-20K. Thanks for expanding on and clarifying your comments on the Primera. Tom