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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: How did they make the printer so expensive?
Message-ID: <599@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 88 17:07:06 GMT
References: <5807@zodiac.UUCP> <17784@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <1988Oct24.225911.21957@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <1988Oct24.225911.21957@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> In article <7542@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer) writes:
> >I don't understand these sentiments.  400 dpi is 77% greater resolution than
> >300 dpi; this is slight? ...
> 
> For most people, and for most purposes, 300 dpi is already adequate.  It's
> not at all clear that the jump to 400 will mean a lot to most customers.
> -- 

To the NeXT customer base (educational institutions) the difference 
between 300 dpi and 400 dpi is the difference between something that
is good enough to offset print without embarrassment, and that which
is not (at least for small press runs).  My publisher is considering 
going directly to print from 300 dpi masters, and I can honestly 
say that I wish something a little higher resolution were available
without having to go the cost of real typesetting.
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer
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