Re: Wrong colors when creating color AFP overlays

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wasn't sure which you meant.  I am not an expert on AFP printing.  I 
only mentioned the 256-color setting because that has worked for me in 
other color settings, like HTML.

Sorry that I haven't any other ideas, Lukas.



Lukas Beeler wrote:
> The colors don't look the way they should in the generated AFP file.
> There's no "real" printer involved in that process, yet.
>
> That was illustrated quite clearly on the screenshots linked in my
> original mail. When I print the resulting AFP files, they look the same
> as the AFP on the screen.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:01 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Wrong colors when creating color AFP overlays
>
> You mean it doesn't reproduce the colors you want, or that the AFP 
> output does not match the original?
>
>
>
> Lukas Beeler wrote:
> > Tried that. But doesn't produce the right color.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
> > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 8:32 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: Wrong colors when creating color AFP overlays
> >
> > I wonder if it might work better if you limited the pallet to 256
> > colors?
> >
> >
> >
> > Lukas Beeler wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > After spending nearly eight hours on this problem, i'm ready to give
> > up.
> > > I'm trying to create a color AFP overlay, which I can print to any
> > > IPDS-enabled color printer which supports FS45.
> > >
> > > The problem is that the colors in the AFP file I get are already
> > wrong,
> > > before I even upload the file to our iSeries (270, V5R4).
> > >
> > > I try to generate the AFP using the IBM printer driver, supplied
> here:
> > >
> http://www-1.ibm.com/support/dlsearch.wss?rs=95&apar=exclude&q=afp+drive
> > > r+psd1*&dc=D430
> > >
> > > (I'm using the Generic 600 dpi Printer driver)
> > >
> > > I also tried the Infoprint Server gif2afp, tiff2afp, jpeg2afp
> > commands.
> > > These don't work at all.
> > >
> > > There is some documentation on this issue:
> https://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/acf2ee1e9d64b16e8625680b000203
> > > 89/f6ce4719a31214d68625710f005d87da?OpenDocument
> > >
> > > It mentions printing from Word, which will generate RGB output, which
> > > the printer driver will misinterpret. So I tried to use several
> > > CMYK-Printing enabled applications, like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe
> > > Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat.
> > >
> > > Not one of them worked.
> > >
> > > The problem is clearly visible in this screenshot:
> > >
> > > http://projectdream.org/~lb/farbproblem.JPG (On the Left the Word
> > > document, on the right the AFP)
> > >
> > > It also happens in the CMYK enabled illustrator in this screenshot:
> > >
> > > http://projectdream.org/~lb/farbproblem2.JPG
> > >
> > > However, printing the pure CMYK-colors works fine:
> > >
> > > http://projectdream.org/~lb/klappt.JPG
> > >
> > > This is our Logo, in a CMYK EPS file:
> > >
> > > http://projectdream.org/~lb/data_adr-logo_leg.eps
> > >
> > >
> > > I've systematically tried all settings available in the printer
> > driver.
> > > Some of them didn't work at all, but all of them created wrong
> colors.
> > > Using the black and white mode works fine, of course. The problems
> > only
> > > there with color printing.
> > >
> > > Anyone got any ideas on this? I've searched the web for hours, and
> > tried
> > > all possible settings. I didn't find any mentioning of people with
> the
> > > same problem.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any feedback in advance!