Digital BW, The Print

on 2/12/02 8:05 PM, Carl Schofield wrote:

> If the file is destined for B&W printing then the next step would be
> conversion to 16 bit greyscale (either using the channel mixer or the
> Lightness channel in LAB mode).  Any required levels or curves adjustments
> and sharpening are made in 16 bit mode before converting to 8 bit for
> printing.  


FWIW, depending on your output, converting to 8-bit for printing may not be
necessary. The Piezo driver ver6 (I'm told) will actually utilize all
16-bits of data, and even if printing through the Epson driver you can just
send the 16-bit file to print and either Photoshop or the Epson driver will
downsample the data on the fly leaving your file unscathed.

It may not make a difference in print, but since you went to the trouble to
stay in the high bit mode throughout, might as well keep it there. Plus it
saves you a step.

Todd