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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NEC P2200 (was: Re: EPSON LQ-500 REVIEW)
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Date: 11 Jun 88 09:21:41 GMT
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:When people say the LaserWriter's resolution is 300dpi, they mean
:exactly that...the dots are narrow enough such that each one is
:1/300th of an inch wide.
:
:When inexpensive printer manufacturers say their resolution is 360dpi,
:what they mean is that the printer can move the carriage 1/360th of an
:inch, but the dot width is larger than that. They intentionally confuse
:the issue to increase sales.
:
:Their motivation is understandable, but caveat emptor! Microspacing
:printers emphatically do *not* produce output of the quality of the
:LaserWriter (or even of the Deskjet, for that matter).

	Right, it's a given.  But within the class of dot matrix printers
comparisons based on such numbers are generally reliable.

					-Matt