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Hello,
I am new to this forum and I have a question about color printers. First, let me briefly describe the scenario: I am working on writing a program that will print color graphics. The main part of the program will print in either CMYK or RGB as postscript. This will be good for most of my users. However, I want to also support those users with non-postscript printers. As far as I know, the most common non-postscript color printers today are the various desktop inkjet printers. So, here are my two questions: 1) Is it correct that the most common non-postscript color printers are the desktop inkjet printers? If not, what are some of the others that you know of. 2) It used to be true that most, if not all, of the desktop inkjet printers would require an RGB file to be sent to the driver even though the printer will print in CMYK (or CMYK-LC-LM, etc.). (I know that the driver can convert a cmyk file to rgb and then back to cmyk again, but that's not what I mean.) Is it still true that most of the non-postscript desktop inkjet printers require RGB files instead of CMYK? To summarize, I am basically trying to find out if there are any non-postscript color output devices today that accept CMYK files instead of RGB files. I'm hoping the numbers are few!!! Thanks in advance for any help! Ken |
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"Ken" wrote in message m... 2) It used to be true that most, if not all, of the desktop inkjet printers would require an RGB file to be sent to the driver even though the printer will print in CMYK (or CMYK-LC-LM, etc.). (I know that the driver can convert a cmyk file to rgb and then back to cmyk again, but that's not what I mean.) Is it still true that most of the non-postscript desktop inkjet printers require RGB files instead of CMYK? To summarize, I am basically trying to find out if there are any non-postscript color output devices today that accept CMYK files instead of RGB files. I'm hoping the numbers are few!!! There may be some, but they are relatively uncommon. All HP's DeskJet printers expect RGB from the driver and HP accounts for more than half of the worldwide desktop inkjet market. I believe that Epson, Canon and Lexmark inkjet printers all expect RGB as well. Regards, Bob Headrick, not speaking for my employer HP |
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On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:59:57 -0700, "Bob Headrick"
wrote: "Ken" wrote in message om... 2) It used to be true that most, if not all, of the desktop inkjet printers would require an RGB file to be sent to the driver even though the printer will print in CMYK (or CMYK-LC-LM, etc.). (I know that the driver can convert a cmyk file to rgb and then back to cmyk again, but that's not what I mean.) Is it still true that most of the non-postscript desktop inkjet printers require RGB files instead of CMYK? To summarize, I am basically trying to find out if there are any non-postscript color output devices today that accept CMYK files instead of RGB files. I'm hoping the numbers are few!!! There may be some, but they are relatively uncommon. All HP's DeskJet printers expect RGB from the driver and HP accounts for more than half of the worldwide desktop inkjet market. I believe that Epson, Canon and Lexmark inkjet printers all expect RGB as well. Yes I think you're correct about non-HP too. Of course, printers will also accept LAB if you're profiling and doing colour management from, say, Photoshop. -- Hecate veni, vidi, reliqui |
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