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Old 01-25-2019, 06:35 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by GeoffR View Post
I am a human and I can easily see the quality difference between 600dpi and 1200dpi with laser printed text, so the idea that the human eye cannot tell the difference is simply nonsense.

(Edit: That's not to say it is a particularly important difference, there are other things that are much more important for reading than high dpi, such as using a well-designed font, good typesetting, fine-tuning layout to suit personal preferences, etc. )
Laser printers are purely b&w and produce shading by halftone dithering.
Eink displays are grayscale. 16 shades most commonly.
For a laser printer to produce 300dpi/16 shades like today's eink it would need to go to 1200dpi.

https://superuser.com/questions/8497...lack-and-white

A 600dpi grayscale eink display would be comparable to commercial offset lithographic pbooks. Pretty clearly overkill and not worth the higher cost required.
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