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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
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Subject: Re: StyleWriter/DeskWriter - Which to buy?
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Date: 22 May 91 21:26:17 GMT
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In article <3531@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> kpottie@icarus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Pottie Karl) writes:
>>Is 360 dpi look much different from 300?
>
>Because the ink on both printers tends to spread out a bit, it is
>very difficult to see any difference.

If you get good paper ($$!), you can tell the difference.  Also, 72dpi bitmap
scaling works bettwe with 360dpi.


The main tradeoff I see is speed vs space.  The deskwriter is faster, the
StyleWriter portable.
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