Digital BW, The Print

I try to do all levels and curves in 16 bit as 8 bit adjustments 
pull the image apart like an undercooked pizza base.

Sometimes there is fine tuning done in 8 bit, often with adjustment 
layers. Now I know these don't interfere with the original file, 
however, taking for example... a moderate stretch of the levels in 
an adjustment layer and then those two layers flattened for 
printing. Would that lead to the same degradation (good word for 
this) as if it was applied directly to the image layer. In other 
words, would there be the same solarized appearance as the end 
result.

Garry Sarre

www.sarre.com