Digital BW, The Print

On 3/27/02 darkroom@... wrote:

>> It is *absolutely not true* that an inky printmaker has an infinite
>> number of tones available. All bw output processes currently only output
>> 8 bits or 256 tones. A quadtone system is *theoretically* capable of
>> representing many more tones... 256 to the power 4 in fact, which is a
>> hell of a lot, but no drivers that I am aware of address this ability.
>
>Hi Johnny,
>
>The PiezoPro supposedly takes 16 bit data, as does Piezo V.6...and it also
>works with 6 tone printers...  People have reported on the Piezo list that
>they notice a difference in using 16 bit files.

I knew that they could print from 16-bit files but I don't know that they
use 16-bit data to calculate the dither. If they did so I would be very
impressed. But I am often impressed by the Coneheads so who knows?
Perhaps someone here.

-- 
John Brownlow

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com