What Bit Depth is required for Inkjet printing

psiman

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21 Jan 2008 - 4:22 PM

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I'm trying to create a fully colour managed work-flow and I've bought a Spyder2PRO to calibrate my Samsung monitor and had a custom printer profile produced by Permajet for the Epson 1290S, Epson Inks and Jessops 260 gsm Gloss paper combination I most commonly use. I'm using Photoshop CS3 and I've set up all of the Colour Management and Print Management settings as recommended and I've been having a go at Soft Proofing. The soft proof display for the custom profile does look closer to the raw print than the un-proofed display but its still leaves a bit to be desired. I normally work in 16-bit mode but I was at a Photoshop4Photographers workshop run by the RPS yesterday and it was mentioned that it was better to convert 16-bit images to 8-bit before printing before printing on older Epson inkjet printers.

I've tried to find some background to this on the net but the little I'm finding seems to be a bit contradictory so I thought I'd make use of the accumulated wisdom of the ages here on ePz.

Can anyone enlighten me?

Simon

cameracat (e2 Member)

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21 Jan 2008 - 5:21 PM

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I think your about right Justin, The way I read it, Most if not all desktop printers tend to be 8bit........Like monitors...!

No harm in transmitting an 16 bit data flow, But only 8 bit is read......!

joolsb (e2 Member)

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22 Jan 2008 - 8:33 AM

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It shouldn't make any difference at all. The important thing is using the right profile. But I'm sure you know that already.