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From: cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Agfa P400 resolution (was: Re: compensating for distortion)
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Date: 2 Jun 90 15:26:43 GMT
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In article <1237@mtxinu.UUCP> jaap@mtxinu.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis) writes:
>
>But why are 300dpi printers not 300 in general? At the introduction
>of the Agfa P400 they told me the next story:
>
>Their printer is marketed as a 400 dpi model, but if you really
>look in the specs, it is actually something like a 406 dpi.  The
>406 dpi make a nice figure in a metric system.
>
>H'm, if you get your calculator out you can see that that doesn't
>make a lot of sense, so it might be yet another urban legend.
>

It makes sense to me: 16/mm = 406.4/in.

Chris Thompson
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