Digital BW, The Print

agreed.

however the dithering  pattern is very unlikely to be sampling at one  
pixel--if it did, dot gain would kill the image.

On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 10:51  AM, Peter Nelson wrote:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Loring Palleske
> <lorpal@m...> wrote:
>> Yes it does - but again I have to suggest that the printer does
> not
>> dither at a 300 lpi.
>
> Inkjet printers don't dither at ANY "L"PI.   Evidence has been
> presented in this forum in the past that the Epson 2200 resamples to
> a fixed 720 PPI before dithering.   But regardless of what
> resolution it resamples to, the bottom line is the same:  dithering
> is a tradeoff between spatial and value resolution - when one goes
> up the other goes down.
>
>
>
>>
>> On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 09:49  AM, Peter Nelson wrote:
>>
>>> The printer resolution has a LOT to do with how many distinct
> tonal
>>> values can be printed in a given spot on the paper!  That's why I
>>> said, above, "in the surface area of the paper".
>> Regards,
>>
>> Loring Palleske
>> Creative Imaging
>>   905.441.2661
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Loring Palleske
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