Re: Grayscale VS. Bitmap

In article <Oqd7f.3756$D13.1937@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Rick <warpedabit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mac Townsend wrote:
> > Charge for the corrections.
> >
> > You may want to first write up why the files as supplied are incorrect,
> > and then provide an estimate of the cost for you to correct. At the same
> > time, outline the general process for them to redo the files or to
> > correct as they can.
> >
> > Send them the write up and the estimate and let them choose wether to do
> > it temsevles or to pay you to do it.
> >
> > Also helpful is a bit of film showing the same logo scanned the stupid
> > way and then scanned correctly. crank ut a couple of these and they will
> > instantly see the difference.
>
> This is very close to how I do handle it. Furthermore, there are a few
> customer for which I make sure the estimating department knows to add an
> hour of labor to each quote request that comes in for that customer.
>
> I just wanted to make sure that I was not unaware of some advancement in
> Quark or Illustrator or Indesign which allowed grayscale images to print
> with solid blacks and clean, sharp edges. :-)
>
> Is converting to bitmap the only way to get solid blacks and clean,
> sharp edges?

I have found that I get a nicer end result by scanning in grayscale,
increasing the contrast in Photoshop dramatically, and then converting
to bitmap. Another benefit of starting with grayscale is that you can
rotate the image (in case it wasn't perfectly straight on the platen
when scanned), whereas you can't do that in bitmap mode (at least in
Photoshop 7, but maybe there's a way to do it of which I'm not aware).
.

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