From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Interestingly, the low resolution of the Alps printer...
Careful -- there's "resolution," and then there's "marketing." The
Alps can place a single dot of any color on any point of a 300 dpi
grid. No ink-jet printer can do this -- when they cite "DPI" specs,
they are simply saying how close they can put secondary color (CMYK)
dots, and it takes many such dots in a dither pattern to synthesize
one arbitrary-colored dye-sub dot!
I agree that at normal viewing distance, an Epson ink-jet print looks
better than an Alps print, but let's not get too excited about the
ink-jet industry's marketing abuse of the term "DPI." In reality,
printing above 300dpi will reveal no improvement on such printers,
although they claim as much as "1440 DPI resolution" in their specs.
: Jan Steinman <mailto:jans@xxxxxxxxxxx>
: 19280 Rydman Court, West Linn, OR 97068-1331 USA
: +1.503.635.3229
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