I like the deep field sharpening and usually that is all I use in QU.  So I would like to be able to DFS a 16 bit image with QU and be able to save it out as a DFSed 16 bit TIF.  My primary OS is Mac, so I'm not limited by Windows printing at 8 bit.  Does (or will) Qimage 1 output 16 bit TIF files?

I have noticed that QU processing changes 16 bit TIF files to 8 bit TIF files.  There doesn't seem to be any way around this.  Is QU going to be fixed so that 16 bit TIF files are output?  In today's era of RAW and high gamut color spaces this "downgrade" is not acceptable to me.  I can't see paying for the annual renewal until we get 16 bit out of QU.