Digital BW, The Print

look up table

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "sinwen"
<sinwen@f...> wrote:
> What LUT means ?
> 
> Thanks for your light.
> 
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>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Tyler Boley 
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:46 PM
>   Subject: [Digital BW] Re: 16 bit and printer output -???
> 
> 
> 
>   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
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