Digital BW, The Print

>ginnylady33 <ginnylady33@...> wrote:
>    I've been scanning via my 9000 at 16 bits but ultimately burning
>files onto Gold CDs for storage at 8 bit. It saves much space. I'm
>wondering if this is an error in judgment.

I would definitely agree that B&W work should be done in 16bit/channel, and would recommend that you use TIFF as your file format; if space is an issue, ZIP compression within TIFF is generally well supported these days and is fairly effective with 16bit/channel files (LZW is not).

-R