Digital BW, The Print

Hi Kevin,

> While the heavy weights take a well deserved breather I thought
> I'd throw in
> my two cents.

One minor correction, I promise ;-)

> <Geek mode on>
> Dynamic range has a very specific meaning to people involved in signal
> processing and designers of optical, audio and many other types of
> equipment.  That definition is just as Austin has stated.  Dynamic Range
> (DR) = 10log10 (smallest signal/largest signal).

Er, you mean largest over smallest...

> Having said that, it seems to me that a perfectly meaningful and
> unambiguous
> (in any ordinary sense of those words) conversation can be had between two
> printers using "dynamic range" and "density range" interchangeably to
> describe the range of tones produced by an ink/paper/workflow combination.

OK, I changed my mind, two...  density range does NOT describe any RANGE of
tones, it describes the two endpoints only...

Regards,

Austin