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From: dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so expensive?
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Date: 20 Oct 88 20:35:40 GMT
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In article <7099@ut-emx.UUCP> malik@emx.UUCP (Nadeem Malik) writes:
>In article <16961@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> lange@cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes:
>>An increase from 300 dpi to 400 dpi is a nearly 80 percent increase in actual
>>resolution, which I call more than slight.  There are indeed 600 dpi printers
>
>Actually it is a 33% increase, but it is still quite significant.

If I had a nickel for every comment like this from these "new mathematicians"
which I've got in the past few days, I'd have enough to buy my first NeXT
machine.

Get it folks: (400^2)/(300^2) is roughly 177/100, or a 77% increase.
Laser printers operate in two dimensions.

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Steve Dyer
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