I'm getting started with QuadToneRIP and Piezography (for prints and digital negatives). I'm currently reading through all the documentation available for both QuadToneTip and Piezography, but I'm getting hung up on this segment in the QTR documentation.
"The .tiff format is very flexible and images stored in this format can have a
wide range of characteristics. Recent versions of QuadToneRIP have
removed many of the constraints on the image characteristics, but it must
be either a grayscale or RGB image. If the image is RGB, QuadToneRIP will
convert it to grayscale. If the image is 16 bit, it will be converted to 8 bit.
Alpha channels in the image will be ignored and layers are permitted. The
image can be in compressed (LZW only) or uncompressed format. Note that
any conversions are only applied to the image data actually processed by
QuadToneRIP. The original file is not changed."
The Piezography documentation calls out using 16bit files. From what I can tell the OSX version of the tool has the option to select between 8bit and 16bit. Is 8bit an inherent limitation on Windows? The documentation is old, is this even still accurate? I have access to a Mac, should I be transferring my files to the mac prior to printing to access 16 bit in QTR? I like technically high quality pints, how much does 8bit vs 16bit matter?
"The .tiff format is very flexible and images stored in this format can have a
wide range of characteristics. Recent versions of QuadToneRIP have
removed many of the constraints on the image characteristics, but it must
be either a grayscale or RGB image. If the image is RGB, QuadToneRIP will
convert it to grayscale. If the image is 16 bit, it will be converted to 8 bit.
Alpha channels in the image will be ignored and layers are permitted. The
image can be in compressed (LZW only) or uncompressed format. Note that
any conversions are only applied to the image data actually processed by
QuadToneRIP. The original file is not changed."
The Piezography documentation calls out using 16bit files. From what I can tell the OSX version of the tool has the option to select between 8bit and 16bit. Is 8bit an inherent limitation on Windows? The documentation is old, is this even still accurate? I have access to a Mac, should I be transferring my files to the mac prior to printing to access 16 bit in QTR? I like technically high quality pints, how much does 8bit vs 16bit matter?
