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5 Sep 2024 01:18:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A little arithmetic  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 13 Oct 2009 14:37:00
Message: <4ad4c8cc@news.povray.org>
>> To be completely precise, let's look at *pixels* per inch, since this 
>> is unambiguous.
> 
> Almost unambiguous. Is a pixel one color or three?

I deliberately chose "pixel" rather than "dot" because I didn't want to 
count seperate RGB subpixels. :-P

>> black text on a white background, printers win by a mile. (Even 
> 
> Generally, 300DPI is considered "proof quality" in printing. It's what 
> you look at to check for spelling mistakes.

Can't say I really notice a huge difference for plain text printed at 
different resolutions - then again, maybe it depends how crispy your 
paper is...

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