Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 1/1/07 2:09:06 PM, fred@... writes:


> Can anyone tell me whether I will lose something in the ABW process
> because of Qimage's habit of converting everything to RGB?
> 

Well, if the printer is going to add non-gray inks, to balance neutrality, or 
add tint as the case may be, then your image is going to be converted to 
"color" no matter what. I don't see that having three channels with the same 
grayscale information in them to be worse than one channel with that info in it, 
its just handy not to have to store all three, since they are identical. If you 
choose to tint your image, then the three are no longer identical, and for 
that tint information, you'll have to store the three channels. For neutral 
images, its not really necessary, and can save space.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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