Digital BW, The Print

This seems way too simplistic to me because it completely ignores the 
aspect of "artistic feel" in the resulting prints.  A target may be 
good for showing the dither pattern, general accuracy of tonal output 
for a given gradient, but actual photos are much more complex and 
have infinitely variable gradiations etc. not tested in this 
shootout.  I'm not arguing against the findings since I've never used 
the Piezography system, and I don't doubt that it is very good, but 
don't have much faith this being the acid test for b&w print quality.

mark

[b&w shootout]
> The guidelines were that each participant was sent a target and had
> 72 hours to print 
> it=receive the CD-ROM test target file and print on Monday, ship it
> back by Friday. No 
> other rules other than stating what printer, inks, paper, software
> was used along with 
> the relative value of the cost of making the print.
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