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From: cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Publishing laserset material (and printer "resolution")
Message-ID: <2535@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 89 19:56:30 GMT
References: <10322@gryphon.COM> <88@sopwith.UUCP> <10844@gryphon.COM> <13747@ico.ISC.COM>
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In article <10844@gryphon.COM>, richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
replied to a comment about using the printer's full resolution:

> Huh ?  300 dpi is 300 dpi.

There was a very good article by David R. Spencer in the February 8, 1988
issue of "The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing" Vol. 2, No. 6
ISSN: 0889-9762.  The title of the article was "BEYOND RESOLUTION Other
Output Quality Factors."

dpi is only one of the many factors affecting quality.  For example, 
mechanical noise of the marking engine itself can ruin a high resolution 
output.  It is not surprising that a 400 dpi printer from one manufacturor
can be worse than a 300 dpi printer by the other.

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