> Philip,
>
> not sure what your color problem is with printing, i never
seemed to have
> any odd printing when i was using a Umax S900 with
metacard, but just
> sold the old machine so i cant check out your specific
problem anymore.
>
> on the difference on how your graphics look on the screen
its the
> different gamma settings that are the norm on the mac to
pc side. pcs
> usually end up on the more vibrant side. usually we just
set the gamma of
> the picts to a setting in between the mac and pc values to
split the
> difference (mac standard is 1.8 and pc is 2.2). you can
also reset the
> mac gamma in os9 under the monitor control panel, but this
wont help if
> your app is going to be distributed to lots of other macs.
>
> hope this helps,
>
> jeff
>
Hi all.
Philip's problem is not unique. I have it all the time, and
it is not a problem with how MC appears on the screen.
I have an Epson Stylus Color 600 printer. If I am working on
a card which is to be printed (editing, changing code,
putting in fields, buttons, etc), and print the card, any
imported graphics print fine. However, everything else is a
shade of gray. It is as if the color data in the stack gets
unsettled. The color data is there, but is not accessed
appropriately by the print engine. I am using a white
background.
I tried almost everything to get the white background to be
white on the printout. I set the stack's background color to
white. I set the card's background color to white. The
groups -- I set their background color to white as well.
Nothing worked.
I have to physically quit MC, reload my stack, and have it
print the card without my editing it in order to get a clean
white background. And yes, I have printcolors set to true
(otherwise my graphics would have been a shade of gray or
black as well).
I have meant to send this in to Scott. I mentioned it to
Kevin.
BTW, I have an iMac, 266 Mhz, 96 MB of memory. Hmmm. I
haven't tried increasing my memory allotment to MC. I'll try
that. If it needs more memory to adequately access the color
tables, perhaps the default memory settings MC comes with
are set too low.
Scott, I know my "explanation" concerning the color data is
simplistic. But might I be on the right track?
Cheers,
Raymond
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Colors
> >Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 01:07:31 EST
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> >I have a program that runs on both PC and Mac platforms
where I print an
> >image positioned in the center of a white card. While
running on a Mac
> >clone
> >machine, I noticed that the white area which is
transparent to the printer
> >on
> >Windows and Mac, prints as light gray on the Mac clone.
Has anyone
> >experienced this before?
> >
> >Also, it seems the colors on the Mac are not as brilliant
as they are on the
> >PC. This bothers me since I am a Mac person at heart.
Any idea why this
> >happens?
> >
> >Philip Chumbley
>
>
>
> Jeffrey H. Reynolds, Ph.D.
> Waveforms
> 5236 Locksley Ave.
> Oakland, CA 94618
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