Digital BW, The Print

In addition to David's excellent summary you can find more realistic 
Dynamic Range numbers on the pages of the Image Engineering website:

http://www.image-engineering.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57&Itemid=91 


The last PDF mentioned there.

I must have a list somewhere of more (older) scanners published by 
ColorFoto in Germany that were tested by Dietmar W\ufffdller of Image 
Engineering.


-- 
Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst Dinkla

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