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Originally Posted by Jellby
Resolution is not the only factor contributing to visual quality, there is anti-aliasing ("blurring" the staircase edge to make them look smooth), hinting (making sure all vertical lines in a font look the same, if that is what the designer meant), dithering (for images), etc. These are controlled by software (or maybe hardware chips), not by the screen.
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Of course this is true, but on the other hand, the more dots you have to play with, the less you need to do any of the things you mention...
For example, early laser printers didn't use anti-aliasing, and the output from them looks fairly good. The e-readers have a slightly harder time of it though, probably because their pixels are very obviously square instead of analog blogs of physical toner fused together.