Most people are wrong, and I wonder if, in fact, "most" people use the terms interchangeably. Perhaps many do. A pixel is not a dot. I don't know where your Nikon is billed as a 4000dpi scanner. Mine shows pixels per inch right in the palette menu.
I do believe that those who are going to communicate technical and important data should use the correct terminology, especially when they know the correct terminology, lest there be confusion and misunderstanding. BTW, I don't believe the two are "analogous." Shel > [Original Message] > From: Brendan MacRae > Well, yes, that's true but the two are alangous: 1 > pixel = 1 dot, ergo, DPI=PPI. That's why my Nikon > scanner is billed as a "4000 dpi" scanner. > > But, yes, technically the setting when scanning is > Pixels per Inch, not Dots per Inch. However, most > people use them interchangeably. > > -Brendan > > --- Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bzzzt! Wrong. You get pixels per inch from a > > scanned file, not dots per > > inch. That's PPI not DPI. DPI is used when > > printing. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
