On 7 June 2011 22:40, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 04:25:50 pm Ted Powell wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 04:11:05PM -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > > On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 09:24:58 am Gregory Pittman wrote: > > > [...] > > > My favorite printer wants 300 dpi for photos and 600 dpi for line art. > > > > FWIW, my HP CLJ 2605dn does up to 1200x1200 black and 600x600 colour, > > and it's a quite modestly priced machine. > > Printed text is in some form of vector format. To reproduce it crisply > requires much higher dpi when it is rasterized late in the prepress > processing. For commercial printers 2500+ is common. The reason your > desktop > printer has the ability to print 1200 x 1200 is for text, not illos. > 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 :-) [1] http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h979.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110607/bb4bcc45/attachment.html>
