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Re: Color Printing of simple graphs

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  • Subject: [mg9588] Re: [mg9568] Color Printing of simple graphs
  • From: seanross at worldnet.att.net
  • Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:24:00 -0500
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Robert M. Lurie wrote:
> 
> I have been unable to get color printing of simple graphs such as
> 
> Clear["Global`*"]
> Needs["Graphics`Colors`"]
> y=x
> z=2 x
>   Plot[{y,z},{x,0,20},
>   PlotStyle->{{Dashing[{.01}],CMYKColor[0,1,0,0]},{Dashing[{.02}],
>         CMYKColor[1,0,1,0]}},PlotLegend->{"Y","Z"},LegendShadow->{0,0},
>   AxesLabel->{"X","Y or Z"},LegendPosition->{.35,-.3},
>   PlotLabel->"X versus Y and Z",TextStyle->{FontSize->12},
>   ColorOutput->CMYKColor];
> 
> The screen looks fine. But the print out on an EpsonStylus Pro come out
> with a variety of problems. It may be all black and white, although the
> In[] is in blue. If I replace the CMYKColor with just Blue or Red and
> remove the final ColorOutput, then one line is yellow and the other
> black. With other variations the legend colors were fine, but the lines
> were either black or sometimes one might be yellow or even green!
>  Have tried various combinations of Presentation versus Working of the
> Printing Style Environment etc.  Printing of 3d objects works fine.
> 
> This is version3.0.0 for Windows 95, (My license is L2201-4833). Running
> on a DECXL560 (same problem with a Compaq Presario 3020).Thanks for any
> help. Robert M. Lurie, rmlurie at alum.mit.edu, currently running a study
> group at Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement on nonlinear
> dynamics.

I had a similar problem, perhaps this will help:  There is a bug in
Mathematica 3.0 that disables color printing if you have 256 colors on
your screen.  If you go to 16 bit color, the problem goes away.  If you
have 256 colors selected, you might try changing it. -- 
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