Digital BW, The Print

On 1.5.2006, at 21:34, Ernst Dinkla wrote:

> Crazy idea probably but the same
> must have been said when font designers added scaffolds,
> skeleton  lines etc to fonts to preserve their quality on bad
> displays and that with the help of slow processors 15-20 years
> ago.

The original work of Xerox lab and prof. Knuth TeX) are more than 30  
years old.

As I know - there is a strong physical limit for all scanning and  
digital sensors - about 8 microns. The detection elements for digital  
photography couldn't be smaller because of wavelength of light. The  
same must be limitation in scanning of grain.

Martin