At 03:39 PM 3/27/97 -0500, you wrote:
>We are collecting images simultaneously w/ PMT1 and PMT2 in order to be
>sure our double labels are located as precisely as possible.  While we can
>merge them on the screen, we are unable to do anything else with the
>image....cannot convert to tiff or any other format for subsequent
>printing or processing.  Also, we cannot get printouts of the color
>merges on our Codonics printer, although we can get the B&W images of the
>side=by sides......Suggestions????
>
>   We are working with Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Confocal Assistant
>2.55 and COMOS 7.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Laura Morris
>Oakland University
>Rochester, MI
>(810) 370-3574
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>
>

I think the problem that you may be experiencing is that you are doing the
merges of the images in Comos and then trying to convert them in Confocal
Assistant. For some reason, Confocal Assistant doesn't like to import merged
image files. It also will not retain any color information that you may have
seen in Comos. My suggestion is to save each channel's image as a separate
file while in Comos, and then import and merge them in Confocal Assistant.
Once the files are merged and colored in Confocal Assistant, you will then
be able to save them as .tif files.

Hope this helps,

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