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: <1988Oct27.174757.2932@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5807@zodiac.UUCP> <17784@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <1988Oct24.225911.21957@utzoo.uucp> <599@optilink.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 88 17:47:57 GMT

In article <599@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>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)...

Gee, I dunno, we're an educational institution and we print things
from 300 dpi masters.  Not when we're really concerned about quality,
of course, but an awful lot of the printing that goes on is for things
where 300 dpi is just fine.  (For that matter, once upon a time we did
a substantial amount of printing from 200 dpi masters.)  And when we
do want quality, we're serious about it -- I'm not at all sure that
the jump from 300 to 400 would be adequate.  (I haven't seen much 400
stuff, so I can't be sure.)  I think you greatly underestimate the
volume of non-quality-critical printing that is done by educational
institutions, and somewhat overestimate the benefits of a modest jump
in resolution.
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