Can the Icon print from 16 bit RGB files?
The short answer is yes but there doesn’t appear to be any special benefit to printing from 16 bit files. The Icon has done numerous tests using our Imageprint RIP to Epson 9800 printers and we have been unable to see any difference in printed results. We can print from 16 bit files if requested but it does slow down the printing speed and we have to charge more for the prints as a result. Unless you really want to pay more for the same quality output we don’t recommend printing from 16 bit files. Recently there has been a suggestion that printing through the Epson printer driver in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) allows for better quality when printing from16 bit files. We have not been able to verify this. Just because it is possible to print from 16 bit files does not mean that it is better. All images printing to the Lightjet must be converted to 8 bits – please convert before you send us files.
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