Digital BW, The Print

> > 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,

Sorry, but <sigh>.

It's also EXACTLY what I've been saying too...the fact that the tonality
isn't mapped 1:1 via "dithering" is undisputable, and has never been an
issue with me.  What Jon said didn't answer my question.

My interest is if Piezo can even print near that many tones as he has
claimed (1000), as well as can we even see them....as well as, if it does,
how does it derive them.  His comment had nothing to do with that,
unfortunately.

The reason I didn't post that part of his post is because it is still
inconclusive, and I've asked more questions of him to try to get answers to
this.  The dithering part, I believe, he has answered as well as he's going
to answer it.

Regards,

Austin