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- From: sjreeves@eng.auburn.edu (Stan Reeves)
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- Subject: Re: Question: difference in viewed and printed images
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- Date: 3 Sep 92 21:50:25 GMT
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- In article <mack.715549997@deci> mack@deci.cs.umn.edu (Dan Mack) writes:
- >In <1565@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> sc7@ukc.ac.uk (S.Chan) writes:
- >
- >>I have printed some decompressed images on hardcopy and they don't
- >>look quite the same as that is shown on a monitor, specifically
- >>the effects of noise, sharpness and blocking effects. (a 2400dpi
- >>printer was used to print the 256-level grey scale images)
- >
- >The problem you are experiencing are due to the imperfect science of
- >gamut mapping. This is a hot topic in computer graphics and falls
- >under color theory. There are lots of papers to read on this. For
- >some introductory reading you could look at the Foley-Vandam graphics
- >book.
-
- >[remainder of discussion on color deleted]
-
- Notice that the original poster was referring to gray-scale images, so
- all this color discussion is irrelevant. I've noticed the same difference
- between displaying and printing *any* gray-scale images (not just lossy-
- compressed). I think the effect springs from the fact that a typical
- monitor inherently does a small amount of lowpass filtering, so that the
- pixel boundaries are less noticeable on a monitor. There may be other
- causes as well, but this is probably one of them.
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- Stan Reeves
- Auburn University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Auburn, AL 36849
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