Has anyone been able to observe any improvement at all when printing in 16 bit mode to an Epson printer on a Mac?
I did some test a while back on a 7900 and could not see the slightest difference no matter how hard I looked.
Maybe I was looking at the wrong place. I printed a bunch of large prints with long gradients and was expecting to see smoother transitions when using 16-bit, but both were identically good no matter how long and subtle the gradients were.
So what is the benefit of 16-bit printing? Is it more precise profiling capabilities? Finer details from a different dithering algorithm maybe?
Surely, there has to be a demonstrable difference however minute.
Thoughts?