Re: SE rom
Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organisation
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Gosh, I wish people would read the postings that they are 'following up' to.

In article <>,   writes:
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>>In article <>,   writes:
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>>> 	Anyway, I was hoping someone knowledgeable
>>> about Mac internals could set me straight: is it simply
>>> impossible for a mac SE to print grayscale, or could
>  	
>>To use the grayscale features, I believe you need a Mac equipped
>>with colour quickdraw. I was told this somewhere or other, but it's
> 
> I think you will find that the Mac SE can PRINT grayscale images, loaded
> with the proper software. However, the Mac SE cannot DISPLAY grayscale on

The original poster  posted an item saying that he had bought a new
wizz-bang Laser Printer from Apple  which can print
GrayScale. He then said that he CANNOT PRINT GRAYSCALE from his SE computer
.

This is the one major bugbear about doing a 3rd party SE upgrade : you will never be able to run Color Quickdraw. It
is Color Quickdraw that controls Color AND Grayscale.

SEs CAN print some COLOUR: this is because Quickdraw - the original, non-colour
version, has the right hooks for eight colours. Some of you will remember the
'SCSIgraph' solution to getting a colour screen for your SE .

There is no reason that Apple couldn't release software patches for older
computers  - but they wont, and 3rd parties are having a difficult 
time in duplicating the Mac's ROMs .

Just one Caveat: I would have thought that if you were printing a POSTSCRIPT
Grayscale image onto a POSTSCRIPT Grayscale printer, that you would be able to
do so, whatever Mac you were using. .

Phil Ryan
Melbourne, Australia
