On Monday 04 September 2006 22:17, Linus Peter Sweers wrote: > My wide format ink jet printers made by HP have metric readings on them. > There are also USC units visible as well, but I have made a point of > using the metric version. The unit prints 1000 linear meters per hour. > Unfortunately the resolution is in DPI.
I mentioned a while ago that plotters' resolution is metric; it has been 25 µm since I was a kid (I'm sure they've come up with finer ones since, but the HPGL driver we use uses that resolution). I think that printers ought to follow suit. Since the conversion to dot bitmaps is done by a PostScript interpreter, which can take any type size expressible in floating point, this should not bother anyone. phma
