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[Digital BW] Re: How many shades of grey?

2005-06-16 by Bailey Donnally

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Richard" 
<richard@r...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> > [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf 
Of Steve
> > Kale
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 7:09 PM
> > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: How many shades of grey?
> > 
> > Fair.  I would rephrase the question then to ask how many do we 
want
> > before
> > we feel we've hit the law of diminishing returns.
> 
> 256 I'd say
> 
> Richard
> 

The good news:  This will only require 255 ink tones if the paper is 
white.

Bailey

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