On Monday 02 May 2005 09:57 am, Mike Russell wrote: > Louis Solomon [SteelBytes] wrote: > >> how to print something in CMYK on a Windows CMYK printer. > > > > ah, windows printers and cmyk ... > > well ... to truely use a cmyk printer on windows as a cmyk device, you > > either have to use a RIP and feed it a cmyk source file (eg cmyk > > tiff), or write your own driver. why is this? cause the only > > standard interface to a printer under windows (ie, GDI) only handles > > rgb (and if anybody knows otherwise, I'd really like to know about > > how) > > As you probably know already, Postscript supports direct CMYK printing . > --- > Mike Russell > www.curvemeister.com > >
But Postscript printers by definition have a built in RIP. Hal ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
