On 8/30/13 8:25 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 08/29/2013 08:41 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
On 8/29/13 8:19 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 08/29/2013 03:59 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:28 AM, Ken Springer<snowsh...@q.com> wrote:
Much like the speakers in a sound system, it occurs to me the
actual quality
of the printed output from a LyX document will depend on the
quality of the
printer being used.
Right or wrong? If wrong, why?
Well, kind of. Of course the printing quality will depend on the
quality of the printer and the paper that you use. But once exported
to PDF, the typesetting quality of your document should be rock-solid,
whichever printer you use.
Obviously, a low resolution printer will give worse printed output. This
is especially true since the fonts used are (usually) vector fonts.
Would you have a guess as to the minimum resolution a printer would
have to have that would show the difference in the quality of the
final print? I'm thinking something the average computer user would
possibly own, as opposed to a professional printing shop.
No, I don't know enough about this, and obviously not as much as you.
But even most home laser printers nowadays have enormous resolution. The
pages I printed myself to test looked really good to my eyes.
Admittedly, I've not had the time nor resources (meaning software) to
test how things work today. I was looking for free stochastic screening
software when I found the expensive stuff.
But this has got me to wondering if the end result may end up being
likened to the output of word processing software compared to
typesetting software. Maybe you won't notice the difference until you
have them side by side.
This is something I won't be able to pursue at my end for at least two
months. Just no time. :-(
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Ken
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