----- Original Message ----- From: "Alin Flaider" Subject: Dynamic range of continuous tone laser printers
> > To those that came across it: > Does it make any difference if you send 48 bit data to commercial > laser printers like Fuji Frontier and the like? Are these printers > capable to represent the additional tones the 48 bit image provides > over a 24 bit one? And if not, is there any difference in the > final print between a 24 bit Tiff and a low compression Jpeg? [of > course we are talking about enlargements from 11x15 (20x30 cm) up] > > While the benefit of 16 bit/channel is obvious to me in digital > post-processing, I'm not so sure about it when it gets to printing. > The operator of a Frontier machine did his best to dishearten me, > though I suspect he would rather avoid dealing with the 62 MB Tiffs > I was prepared to feed him. I don't know about Fuji, but I am pretty sure the Noritsu machines don't read more than 8 bit. I tried to feed my machine some 16 bit tiffs, and it gave me an alarm indicating it had not read all the image date. I doubt if the Frontier is doing anything different. William Robb
