Digital BW, The Print

Peter,

I didn't say that; I replied to 'Jon' who said it!!

I actually said much the same as you - I think.

Bob Frost.

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From: <peter@...>


> <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.