Re: Really Really Frustrated
Re: Really Really Frustrated
- Subject: Re: Really Really Frustrated
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 23:48:43 -0700
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So, someone, somewhere is making 1440 CMYK dots per inch out of the
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~300 RGB dots per inch in your image. That's my point -- there is
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some sort of Raster Image Processing going on at some level, albeit
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NOT by a third-party RIP.
Images aren't made out of dots. It's made out of pixels. 300 pixels per
inch is substantially different than 1440 dots per inch. A dot has fixed
density (either 0% or 100%) and a pixel has a range of density (levels).
Pixels implies continuous tone, and it takes a whole lot more dots (than
pixels) in order to get something that mimics continuous tone.
So comparing 300ppi to 1440dpi, 300ppi definitely has more information in
it.
Chris Murphy