Is Icefields a 16-bit image processor?
• Icefields supports input of images in 16-bit and outputs 8-bit halftones. Icefields working bit-depth is 8-bit. There are several reasons why 16-bit only slows down the processing time with no increase in quality. • 1.Icefields floating-point processing eliminates rounding errors. • 2.Icefields error-handling cycles any numerical errors (numbers that lie between the 256 8-bit numbers) back into the calculations. • 3.The greater dot frequency of the printer’s resolution contains all the information that a greater amplitude (bit-depth) can contain. Data is not lost in the 16-bit to 8-bit compression.
