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RE: [Digital BW] Do inkjets dither or not?

2002-08-02 by Austin Franklin

and BTW...

> ... It
> renders more than 1,000 gray values in 8-bit mode.

I believe 100, not 1000...you simply can't have more than 256 values in an 8
bit byte...

> The new
> PiezographyBW Pro24 renders more than 4,000 gray values in 16-bit mode."

I don't know that is true either...as it's not the number of bits here that
matters, but the number of inks, and the ability to actually dither them to
make that many tones...haven written many dithering/halftone algorithms for
pre-press output devices, I'm very skeptical of the accuracy of this
statement.

Regards,

Austin

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