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RE: [Digital BW] QTR ,BO and dithering - Good News

2005-08-11 by Paul D. DeRocco

> From: Clayton Jones
>
> For a more practical test to verify the above, I printed a landscape
> with clouds, an image that has always showed up BO weakest area,
> smooth midtones.  It verified all of the above ramp observations.
> There is a place in the clouds with little swirling patterns that are
> barely defined in Epson BO, are a tiny bit better with Ordered, and
> are very crisp and clearly defined with HFS and EvenTone, with
> EvenTone being a tiny bit the better of those.

You should probably also test the dithering on stuff with fine detail.
Improving the behavior on smooth gradients may degrade it on edges or fine
lines.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

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