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- Short: Print in Alps MD-2300 photo-quality mode
- Author: Mike Pershing
- Type: text/print
- Requires: - Any Amiga system & chip set
-
- - Alps MD-2300 Masterpiece parallel interface printer
- - An image processing program (such as ADPro or ImageFX) capable
- of writing files in color separated raw (Sculpt) format with
- .red, .grn, and .blu extensions
-
- This is a functional demo version of a program for printing images on the
- Alps MD-2300 Masterpiece printer using its photographic quality (dye-sub)
- mode.
-
- The Alps MD-2300 Masterpiece printer is a low cost combination dry ink and
- dye-sub printer. (The so-called "inks" are actually ribbon cartridges.) In
- dye-sub mode, using the special photographic ink cartridges, it is capable
- of near continuous tone photographic quality printing, which makes it one
- of the lowest cost printers in this category. Until now, there have been
- no print drivers available to utilize the photographic quality mode with the
- Amiga.
-
- PhotoPrint is not a true print driver, as it does not link into
- the operating system to be called by other programs. Rather, it is a
- program which allows one to select an image file, resize and position it
- on the page, and print it. I wanted to get it working as soon as possible
- and concentrated solely on that problem, so I made no attempt to reinvent
- other software tools which are readily available and do those jobs better
- than I could duplicate. Any color balancing, image rotation, contrast
- adjustment, etc. must first be done in an image processing program of your
- choice. The image must then be saved in raw red, green and blue files, or
- "Sculpt" format. Programs such as ImageFX or ADPro will save in this
- format.
-
- Printing is done directly from disk file to the printer or to another file,
- if desired.
-
- The demo version is limited to printing on 4x6" paper stock. For the full
- version, capable of printing on 8.5x11" paper, send $15 (U.S.) check or
- money order to:
-
- OMICRON COMPUTER SYSTEMS
- 1005 WHITESTONE RD.
- XENIA, OH 45385
- USA
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- 62 62 0.0% 28-Jun-97 12:47:10 +HEADER
- 17202 5249 69.4% 02-Apr-98 20:35:44 +INTRO.IFF
- 55828 24959 55.2% 02-Apr-98 21:53:22 +PhotoPrint
- 10208 4524 55.6% 03-Apr-98 14:11:50 +PhotoPrint.doc
- 731 640 12.4% 03-Apr-98 09:10:18 +PhotoPrint.doc.info
- 2658 285 89.2% 03-Apr-98 09:10:18 +PhotoPrint.info
- 2063 1064 48.4% 03-Apr-98 14:06:10 +PhotoPrint.readme
- 731 639 12.5% 03-Apr-98 09:10:58 +PhotoPrint.readme.info
- 25052 9362 62.6% 02-Apr-98 10:36:32 +PRINTSC4x6demo.IFF
- 76472 61407 19.7% 03-Apr-98 14:00:04 +sample.blu
- 76472 60358 21.0% 03-Apr-98 14:00:04 +sample.grn
- 7536 7237 3.9% 03-Apr-98 14:00:04 +sample.nail.info
- 76472 61099 20.1% 03-Apr-98 14:00:04 +sample.red
- 900 339 62.3% 03-Apr-98 09:10:18 PhotoPrint.info
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- 352387 237224 32.6% 05-Apr-98 19:13:00 14 files
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