Printer Color Mixing

Some printers, such as the IBM® 5182, compose certain colors by mixing colors. Colors are mixed by printing the text in one color and then printing over the same text in another color on a second pass.

PC/3270 will compose a color if the color is not defined in the printer definition table of a color printer that is capable of mixing colors. Therefore, if you are using a printer that composes some colors by mixing two colors, leave the definition of the composed colors blank in the printer definition file. Only the composite colors defined in Table 1 are created by double-printing the primary colors.

For example, to create red, you must define yellow and magenta. The primary colors must be defined in the printer definition table.