Re: Shaded box

["Charles Wilt" <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

You still havn't mentioned how you are printing to these printers?

Do you have device descriptions defined with TYPE(*IPDS) AFP(*YES)?

It seems possible for the IBM's, but I'd be surprised on the Canons.

Charles

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:54 AM, pepitovadecurt <pepitovadecurt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, I have a IBM 1332, Infoprint20, Canon IR2570c and Canon IR4570.
> These printers support the shade box?
> When I use the program "AFP Workbench Viewer", the shade doesn't
> appears, the box and pagseg appears correctly.
> When I assign boxcolor grey, in the "AFP Workbench Viewer" appears ok
> but when I print it, appears black.
>
>
> Wayne McAlpine escribió:
> > I believe that's hardware dependent.  From the DDS Reference:
> >
> >     1. When you specify box shading with no color or with the basic
> > color model, IM1 image is used as the fill pattern. This works best on
> > 240/300/600 pel printers. It may produce unsatisfactory results on the
> > 4224, 4234, and 64XX printers.
> >     2. When you specify box shading with an extended color model (RGB,
> > CMYK, or CIELAB), IOCA image is used for the fill pattern. IM1 image
> > does not support these color models. The IPDS™ printer must support IOCA
> > image for this to print properly.
> >     3. When you specify box shading with an extended color model, the
> > following monochrome IPDS printers support gray scaling when you specify
> > highlight color:
> >            * Infoprint(R) 60
> >            * Infoprint 62
> >            * Infoprint 2000
> >            * Infoprint 3000
> >            * Infoprint 4000
> >        These printers must be at ucode level 8.3 or later.
> >
> >
> > pepitovadecurt wrote:
> > > I have a afp. No problem to draw a box, but is posible to do a box with
> > > shade?
>
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