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Re: [Digital BW] Number of tones was Re: Do inkjets dither or not?

2002-08-05 by Truman Prevatt

However, quantization to 8 bits carries only a fixed amount of 
information and has a fixed noise floor. What you can do is limited by 
that. See any good text on information theory or if  you need source 
from imaging see any good reference on imaging radar.

Truman

royvharrington wrote:

>
>
> Jon's Piezo website claims this.  I make no claim whether or not it 
> actually
> does this, because I don't know.  I only claim that your argument of 
> 8-bit can't
> make 1000 levels is flawed.
>

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