> If you really have the finished, sharpened, product ready for printing I see nothing wrong with saving a jpeg at the maximum quality setting (PhotoShop). The file size is still quite big but a huge saving in disk space over TIFF. > Heck, I thought you were an experimenter: surprised you have not tried or are you too busy mending darkrooms ;o) mending darkrooms :-) Actually, I figured as much (from my testing) but I'd like other opinions - Sometimes my opinions get poo-hoo'd because popular wisdom (oxymoron) disagrees. I advise students to save as JPEG for space considerations while preserving the original image, whatever the capure format as a TIF before working on it. just feeling out other ideas k