Talk:Colour pinstripe/Printer: Difference between revisions

 

I know how to do most of this in C (or C++) on Windows (via [[GDI]] and a syscall) for ''raster'' printers, with the exception of [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd144877%28VS.85%29.aspx querying the printer driver] to get awareness of the ink colors available. (For example, to my knowledge, most home HP inkjet printers support a five-color model, if the right cartridges are used. I'm not aware of these capabilities being made available to userland applications, though; I'm fairly sure they're used as a dither basis in either the printer driver or the printer's internal processor.). Also, this task is specifically plausible only for raster printer devices. I would suggest that the task be renamed to [[Colour pinstripe/Raster]]. Since the task as-written only supports devices which allow bypassing of driver and internal processing, it may also be sensible to specify an explicit color order (such as CMYK(CM|B)(MY|R)(YC|G), or else each example would have to be specific to a particular printer control language. That said, comparison of PostScript vs PCL is a good thing, but it'd be preferable for it to not be the ''only'' thing. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 15:55, 23 May 2011 (UTC)