alt Hacker News> Hopefully my photo processor will accept JPEG XL in the near future!
Aren't print shops, machining shops, other small manufacturers etc. ones that always lag behind with emerging technologies?
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p_ing • yesterday at 7:50 PM
Yes, because those systems cost gobs of money. You don't replace them just for the hot new thing.
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Designers might also be hesitant to use an untested file format for print, too.
If there’s a large amount of paper that’s been purchased for a job, I definitely wouldn’t want to be the one who’s responsible for using JPEG XL and – for whatever reason – something going wrong.
Pixels are cheaper than paper or other physical media :)