Digital BW, The Print

----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 6:15 AM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Number of tones was Re: Do inkjets dither or not?


> I did get a response from Jon Cone on the dithering.  His comment was
> basically that "a dither pattern was not visually evident", and secondly
> that it "does not use a dither pattern in the traditional sense...PiezoBW
> does not use static screening techniques"...
>
> He seems to want to distinguish his dithering technique from any other
> dithering technique...and I guess his claim is his way of doing that...
>
Austin,

You left out the portion of his post where he said,

"One is input (your file). One is output (the printer driver.) You are
thinking of an output driver only as an input translator. Where a lot of
these gray values go is towards averaging and smoothing (not just specific
tone reproduction). PiezoBW looks pretty damn good. There is a lot more to
PiezoBW than just translating an input value to
an output value."

This is along the lines of what Tyler, myself and others have been saying on
this thread. The driver, printer, ink and paper gives you an interpretation
of the input file and if it give good results the technical specifics may
not be all that important to us.

Martin