Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so expensive?
Message-ID: <1988Oct25.175954.8744@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5807@zodiac.UUCP> <17784@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <16961@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 88 17:59:54 GMT

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...

It depends.  The real question is not how many more dots there are per
inch, or per square inch, but how much better the output looks, other
things being equal (which they often are not in comparing different
printers).  Last I heard, perceived output quality is *not* a linear
function of resolution.
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