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Re: [QuadtoneRIP] RGB files?

2008-06-06 by Roy Harrington

If your RGB file is monochrome there's no difference between RGB and grayscale
as far as QTR is concerned.  A color RGB file will be converted to
grayscale by QTR
but its a default conversion so I'd recommend converting yourself for
the best results.

If you use Photoshop, edit all in 16-bit.  As long as you convert to
8-bit using the
intelligent dithering that PS does it makes no difference whether you
send 8-bit or 16-bit.
It boils down to gray 8 bit is much smaller file that RGB 16-bit for
the same results.

Roy

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:22 PM, scott_now_coming
<scott_now_coming@...> wrote:
> Is it best to send RGB files to QTR? Or, should the files be saved as
> grayscale?
>
> Also, any advantage to sending 16-bit files to QTR, as opposed to 8-bit?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
>

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