Digital BW, The Print

Hello Roy,

Your absolutely right, 16 bit greyscale is 65 thousand shades.

It is incorrect on our web site, will be fixing that.

( I wish we had 65 million shades to work with.)

Thank you.

Joe


On 1/13/05 12:52 PM, "Roy Harrington" <roy@...> wrote:

> 
> --- 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.
> 



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