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

2002-03-29 by Austin Franklin

> 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.

Hi Johnny,

What I originally though was wrong with the above isn't what's wrong with
it.  What the "equation" is missing is dMin.

Your equation was (dMax / "noise"), instead of ((dMax - dMin) / "noise").

Austin

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