Digital BW, The Print

I use an Epson 2400 and a slight variant of Clayton's B&W printing
workflow. I am planning to upgrade CS3 to CS4 shortly. There are a
number of factors around whether I choose this time to switch from the
PC environment to the Mac. On that background, the Mac version of CS4
has 16 bit printing/windows still 14; though I can't determine if my
printer supports 16 bit (Mac OS does support it). Would/should the
difference between 14 and 16 bit printing have no/minor/mod/major
impact on print image quality from customary viewing distances?

I seriously doubt you'll see a difference between 14 and 16 bit printing.
FWIW, all my printing, Mac OS and CS3, is done with 16 bit images.

Harry
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Harry F. Lockwood

What makes you think CS3 (or CS4) on Windows prints 14bit ?
I believe its 8 bit with CS3 and other apps using the Windows Epson driver.
The only way to get more than 8 bit printing on Windows is with a dedicated
driver such as Imageprint.

Mike

2008/10/26 mtparis <mtparis@...>

>   I use an Epson 2400 and a slight variant of Clayton's B&W printing
> workflow. I am planning to upgrade CS3 to CS4 shortly. There are a
> number of factors around whether I choose this time to switch from the
> PC environment to the Mac. On that background, the Mac version of CS4
> has 16 bit printing/windows still 14; though I can't determine if my
> printer supports 16 bit (Mac OS does support it). Would/should the
> difference between 14 and 16 bit printing have no/minor/mod/major
> impact on print image quality from customary viewing distances?
>
> 
>


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