Yeah, usually, most of the time we all see "banding" when looking at gradients (skies)

Sure, color banding CAN be "created" (seen) even when printing high quality images, (with no visable banding), IF the printer is printing at a low print quality setting. But, this is a hit and miss aspect as it is dependant on the image, the printer, the settings, etc. So yeah, good/great images coupled with a "fine" printer setting might not SOLVE an already existing visual banding problem but it will normally keep it from happening.

Random note #1 - An OLD solution to minmize the effect of banding in an image was to add noise to the image (or the area). It does basically work, although obviously you ARE adding noise, so you would need to balance out what looks better to what you want it to look like.

Random Note #2 - TIFFS...I dropped almost all all tiff usage and have converted all my tiffs on my harddrive to PNG. A PNG is as good as a TIF but can have smaller filesizes, sometimes, a MUCH smaller filesize, especially in images with fewer colors and greyscale images. And, PNG's do support 48-bit and 96-bit color depths.

As I have over 700 bryce projects and (had) way over 1,000 tiffs on my harddrive, I've saved a LOT of space converting to PNG. *In my case, I have created TONS of 48-bit grayscale images to be used in Bryce to drive Terrains and those benefit very well in smaller files sizes as being png's instead of tiff's.

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