Digital BW, The Print

Doug,

There's no magic to converting from 16 bit to 8 bit, you just throw away 
the 8 least significant bits. I can't imagine that there would be any 
difference whether the driver or PS did this. You'd probably save time 
pushing data down to the printer if you converted in PS first.

-Jason

Doug Fisher wrote:
> It is my understanding that the Epson print driver is only 8 bit.  If true,
> then a conversion to 8 bits occurs to all 16 bit files before printing.  You
> can convert the file manually in PS and then print or you can just print the
> 16 bit file and let the Epson driver do its own conversion as necessary.  Is
> there any advantage to one method over the other in regards to print
> quality?  I can run tests but didn't want to "reinvent the wheel" if someone
> else had already tested this.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Doug