<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 June 2011 22:40, John Culleton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@wexfordpress.com">john@wexfordpress.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 04:25:50 pm Ted Powell wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 04:11:05PM -0400, John Culleton wrote:<br>
> > On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 09:24:58 am Gregory Pittman wrote:<br>
> > [...]<br>
> > My favorite printer wants 300 dpi for photos and 600 dpi for line art.<br>
><br>
> FWIW, my HP CLJ 2605dn does up to 1200x1200 black and 600x600 colour,<br>
> and it's a quite modestly priced machine.<br>
<br>
</div>Printed text is in some form of vector format. To reproduce it crisply<br>
requires much higher dpi when it is rasterized late in the prepress<br>
processing. For commercial printers 2500+ is common. The reason your desktop<br>
printer has the ability to print 1200 x 1200 is for text, not illos.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The printer has a max resolution of 600x600 dpi [1]. The rest is fancy positioning of the dots. Though I wonder why a RIP should care wether ir places dots for an photo or for a letter shaped image :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h979.htm">http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h979.htm</a></div><div><br></div></div>