Digital BW, The Print

I was following right along with this discussion of storage and, suddenly, 
it became a discussion of printing 8 bit v. 16.
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From: "X_Ray_Wa" <x_ray_wa@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Archiving images on DVD?


> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:48:16 +0800, Bob Frost <bob@...> wrote:
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>> Ginny,
>> I think you missed John's point. You were talking about prints made from
>> 16bit and 8bit images on an 8bit printer, ie a printer whose driver
>> downsamples 16bit files to 8bit before printing it.
>> John was making the point that some printers are now 16bit, ie their
>> printer
>> drivers can handle all 16bits, so you would have to repeat your tests
>> with
>> 16bit and 8bit images printed on a printer with a 16bit driver.
>> In time, I expect many more printers will handle 16bit files, but until
>> someone has done the comparisons with one of those printers, we won't
>> know
>> what the difference is, if any.
>> Bob Fros
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> interesting read
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> http://visual-vacations.com/Photography/bit_depth_comparison.htm
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