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RE: [Digital BW] Dynamic Range Definitions and Print Tones

2002-03-29 by Austin Franklin

> > I do not see how you can directly "measure" the
> > dynamic range of a print. Perhaps in electronics you can.
>
> It seems simple to me.
>
> You get the print driver to output the lightest continuous (yeah I know)
> tone it is capable of short of not printing at all. You measure the
> reflectance of that patch.
>
> You measure the reflectance of the darkest tone it is capable of laying
> down.
>
> The dynamic range is the ratio between them, exactly as Kevin said.

That's not right.  That is the DENSITY range between the two, and is not the
dynamic range.

Austin

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