Digital BW, The Print

Tyler Boley wrote:

> Someone mentioned this issue nearly disapears with such cheap storage
> and memory these days, it's used to be a bigger problem. Also, PS
> could do little to nothing with it back then.

And 16 bit may have passed the editing, archiving stages:

16 bit printer drivers are popping up too: GutenPrint, the 
Canon wide format PS plug-in,  Wasatch SoftRip 6.1, ImagePro 
(claims to be 16 bit much longer already), the Pocket Rip 
:-) another PS plug-in of mixed reputation.

On the scanner front the HP's G4010 and G4050, 6 color, 96 
bit, may be strange birds but together with N-color 
printers, color capture and printing gets wider gamuts + 
better defined color. The scanner has two spectrally 
different light sources so two scan passes, one RGB sensor 
system, two images stacked at 96 bit and processed,  so a 
very slow process !  Cheap scanners, consumer reports are 
not positive, the driver lacks but Vuescan supports the 
scanners already. My guess is that it is another range of 
scanners that has more potential than the normal consumer 
will exploit.

Review in Dutch :-)

http://www.hardware.info/nl-NL/articles/amdnY2psZGSa/HP_Scanjet_G4050_review/

So far only Sony had a digital camera with a 4th color in 
the Bayer mosa\ufffdc filter sensor, but it will not be the last 
attempt to get better color definition by more spectral 
sampling.


Met vriendelijke groeten,  Ernst


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