Digital BW, The Print

I'm getting out of my element here, but my understanding is that all
printer drivers make 16 bit ramps internally. Also, many profiles,
even color, use 16 bit LUTs. Of course IJC/OPM probably does not use
icc profiles in the strictest sense, but if their "profiles" use LUTs,
that's probably where that statement applies.
So some of this would not be extremely informative, until you see this-
"(16-bit files remain 16-bit)".
That answers the question.
Tyler

---- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "bwbonkers"
<PeterDLevis@a...> wrote:
> 
> OPM/IJC from Bowhaus uses 16 bit for printing.
> 
> I quote from their website:
> 
> ...All of IJC/OPM profiles and rendering algorithms operate in 16-
> bit, over 65 million shades of gray, resulting in smoother gradations 
> and transitions. IJC/OPM internally converts all 8-bit grayscale 
> files to 16-bit during printing to take advantage of the 16-bit 
> profiles and rendering algorithms (16-bit files remain 16-bit)....
> 
> Peter.