Colour support

[Mike-DE-RE]

The software I am using can create colour - as far as I know.

I made a file for your that should have coloured output:

TOPLABEL.zip

Here is the result of it's conversion

[Mike-DE-RE]

Wrong button. ;-)

[Mike-DE-RE]

HERE is the result of it's conversion:

PDF.zip

As a matter of fact, it is black and white.

The result should look like this:

Oops, didn't see my typing error in the URL.

[RWAP]

Hmm - is your software set up to print in colour? The only ESC/P2 codes I can see in the .prn file are ESC @ (reset) ESC J (advance print position vertically) and ESC * (bitmap image dump)...

There should be an ESC r command to change colour but its not in the file - unless there is something I am missing...

[Mike-DE-RE]

You are right - my mistake. The software I use has a special switch with which you have to enable colour printing first. Done in

TOPLABEL.zip

Results show colour, see

PDFs.zip

This is a preview of what you should find

[Mike-DE-RE]

Raw data from RETRO.zip, see #11

contains

Picture is scaled to 173.4 x 130 mm and centered, it is a screenshot of your website colour
reduced to fixed eight colours using Stucki algorithm

and can be used for colour testing as well. Here is the original PCX image:

S8RETROP.zip

[Mike-DE-RE]

Did you see the colour problems in above Word for DOS file?

Might have to do with the latest release of code.

[RWAP]

Where is the prn file for the word for dos file? Do these come out correctly on an attached printer?

Oddly the TOPLABEL.zip only sends 3 different ESC r colour commands to the printer (0 BLACK, 1: MAGENTA, 2: CYAN and 6: GREEN) with no mixed colours.

[Mike-DE-RE]

Where is the prn file for the word for dos file?

The file is uploaded here #11

Do these come out correctly on an attached printer?

As a matter of fact, I have no colour dot matrix printer. I cannot check that right now.

[RWAP]

OK - I have checked these using a QL emulator on Windows and copied the files to the parallel port). Alas I don't have a colour Epson printer either any more - but the data is captured and processed by another printer capture program (written for Windows) - QPCPrint.

This shows the same issues with the colours, so it looks to be an issue with the printer driver you are using for colour output.

[RWAP]

I am not convinced that the mixed colours are quite right - but there is no easy way to match these with what you would get on a printer that I can see. I shall ask the author of QPCPrint as their colour mix appears a better match