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Originally Posted by kartu
Could we please stop talking utter nonsense and mixing pixels per inch and dots per inch, which is anyway offtopic here? Thank you. |
As a professional printer and long time tech junkie I would have to agree. Even the iPhone, which has the highest resolution screen on the mobile scene is only 200 ppi, and is very readable (at least to my eyes) at a very small character size. Comparing it to laser printing on paper is not even realistic. While laser printer manufacturers like to tout high DPI ratings, B&W laser technology doesn't even use dots to print, it lays down solid blocks of toner which are then transfered via a fusing module onto the paper. In color printing this is slightly different as the printer usually simulates a dot screen to be able to blend CMYK inks into proper hue balance.
Even very early presses used full character slugs to place ink on paper rather than dots. The DPI ratings on laser printers are just there for comparison to ink-jet which uses a modified nozzel array to virtualize a dot screen.
While I am all for higher resolution mobile displays, especially e-paper, lets compare apples to apples here.
Thomas: Any word yet on USA availability and carrier partnerships?
