WalterBeiter Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 16-Bit would be so much better for printing. especially with gradients as a background. CMYK 16-Bit please. Thanks. alexistrn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted October 6, 2015 Staff Share Posted October 6, 2015 Hi Walter, We considered this in the beginning, but it turns out that no presses actually support it! Thanks, Andy, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Andy, I was thinking the same thing when I read this. I have worked for several medium to large commercial printers in the prepress department over the years and whenever we received 16 bit files, we always converted them to 8 bit. In fact we had to, none of our R.I.P.'s nor any of our direct to plate, direct to press systems would take them. I no longer work for a commercial printer so I wasn't sure if this had changed but apparently not. Maybe Walter has some specific purpose for 16 bit files? There must be some sort of application for them but I don't know what it is? Hokusai MEB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalterBeiter Posted October 6, 2015 Author Share Posted October 6, 2015 ok, thanks. I wasn't sure about that. When I send a pdf out to the press, they never said, that it needed to be 8 bit, so I thought I could send 16-bit. Never mind about the 16-bit then. I didn't know, that it wasn't supported by presses. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexistrn Posted Thursday at 10:40 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:40 PM (edited) @Andy Somerfield Hi everyone ! After almost 10 years, I am reviving this topic, because what was fit so many years ago is no longer necessarily valid today. I live in France and use Afinity for my business, and here, some printers offer to send files in 16 bits. Would it be possible to consider support for CMJN (that's the name in France) CMYK/16 bits ? It would be useful, especially for large/huge format printing and photography. Or maybe there's already a way to use it in the Affinity suite ? Because I don't see any way, whatever the app. Thank you for your answers ! Edited Thursday at 10:51 PM by alexistrn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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