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Talk:Colour pinstripe/Printer: Difference between revisions
white paper and mixing to produce red, blue and green
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[[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 16:04, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
: I've never used a printer that had white ink. Or read, green or blue ink, for that matter. Printers generally operate on pigments, which operate on a light-subtractive model, not a light-additive model. As far as whether or not it's possible to tell the driver to print the pinstripe--if it is, it's not documented for how to do that on Windows, and that suggests to me that it would then be a vendor-specific thing (The generic interface on Windows for querying what drivers are capable of is GetDeviceCaps. And, actually, I'm failing to find functions for drawing in CMYK; it looks like it's all done in RGB, and the printer driver does the necessary translation), if supported at all. This feels a bit like a terminology blockage, though; by "inks available in the device", do you mean, "simple colors the device can represent"? --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 17:24, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I assumed white paper for this task. For a white pinstripe, do not apply any ink to the stripe. Red = Yellow + Magenta, Green = Cyan + Yellow, Blue = Cyan + Magenta. If the printer does not have cyan, magenta, yellow, then for this task, then it doesn't matter what inks the printer actually uses, just make an approximation of the basic colours, eg show how to request each of the colours from the driver and let the driver do the mixing.
[[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 17:41, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
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