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Originally Posted by tompe
Standard print resolution is much better at least for the text. If I remember correctly photo offset machines are 1200dpi or better.
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They are today - often a lot higher.
But, on the other hand, I'm currently proofing Rider Haggard's "She" against an 1898 scan from Google Books, which has obviously been directly typeset from typewritten pages - a monospaced Courier font. Moreover, a typewriter with uneven characters and the top line missing from every letter "a"!