Digital BW, The Print

97.3% sure all printers (Epson etc) use 8 bits max.  Would be a waste to use 16 bit 
considering the dynamic range of paper and ink.  

I often edit in 16 bit, but convert to 8 for printing and for saving (of flattened print files).

Scott

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Husband" <thusband@s...> 
wrote:
> When printing a 16 bit file does the printer convert it to 8 bit?  
> I've been trying to get the author of Qimage to allow processing of 
> 16 bit grayscale files.  Qimage has a feature called "print to file"  
> where you don't send the file to the printer but to another