Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "bwbonkers" 
<PeterDLevis@a...> wrote:
> 
> OPM/IJC from Bowhaus uses 16 bit for printing.
> 
> I quote from their website:
> 
> ...All of IJC/OPM profiles and rendering algorithms operate in 16-
> bit, over 65 million shades of gray, resulting in smoother gradations 

Looks like a typo -- 65 thousand not million.
Even that's somewhat of an exaggeration -- Photoshop maxes out
at half that.

> and transitions. IJC/OPM internally converts all 8-bit grayscale 
> files to 16-bit during printing to take advantage of the 16-bit 
> profiles and rendering algorithms (16-bit files remain 16-bit)....
> 
> Peter.