Digital BW, The Print

<bobfrost@b...> wrote:
> This mindless pedantry is lowering the value of the list.

But how do we decide what pedantry is mindless?

As a former inkjet driver writer and a current image
processing sw engineer I have an interest in the 
dithering and rendering algorithms used in inkjet
printing.  Fixed or variable cell size, stochastic
or deterministic dithering algorithms, resample first
or interpolate from the original pixels?  Etc.   These
things might seem esoteric and arcane to you and some
others but they have consequences for our printing.

This stuff might seem pedantic (hence my joke in my
response to Austin about this being worth 30% of your
grade on the optimal DPI thread) but as long as they
are filled with facts and knowledge and not ad hominem
attacks I don't see anything wrong with them here.
 
I recently posted a link to my website to a study I was
doing on inkjet printing on artist's media which is 
even more esoteric.   I'm about to update it with some 
new information about the differences between Epson 
Photo Black and Matte Black inks that have real, if 
arcane, relevance to black and white inkjet printing.