On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 15:19:56 -0800, "M77" wrote:



holy crap you are a MORON. nobody is talking about press printing. we are
talking about PHOTOGRAPHIC resolution. you just typed a ton of garbage that
nobody asked to hear. one person asks what the 'deeper' meaning behind
300ppi was, and you go off on a psychotic rampage talking about press print
and printing with ONE color?????


That's because that's MUST be the starting point to understanding.

Here's why... what exactly do you think happens in the print engine
when you print your 300 ppi color image on an inkjet. Do you really
think that the inkjet produces a one-to-one correspondence between the
image information and the inkjet "dots" on the paper. It does not.
Your inkjet can break that down into 720 or 1440 dpi. So what exactly
do you think is happening?

Additionally, when you print on real photographic paper, do you think
that each there's a perfectly shaped grid of exposed chemicals on the
paper. There is not.

To understand, really understand, the recommendations for image
resolution you need to start with the basics and work your way up. The
digital resolution recommendations started a long time before there
even was such a thing as a desktop digital color printer. And there is
a reason for that... but if you don't want to know the reason that's
okay with me.


-- JC