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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
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Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so expensive?
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Date: 20 Oct 88 21:30:19 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.
#>
#> 
#>Nadeem Malik
#>malik@emx.utexas.edu

I'm sure you'll be deluged with the observation that paper is
two-dimensional while dots per inch is one-dimensional. So
16/9, or 1.777777..., is the ratio of possible dots which
corresponds to what is being called resolution (not precisely
the same as the way the term is used in physics perhaps).