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- From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
- Subject: Re: Question: difference in viewed and printed images
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 02:40:47 GMT
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- In article <sjreeves.920903165024@fourier.ee.eng.auburn.edu> sjreeves@eng.auburn.edu (Stan Reeves) writes:
- >Notice that the original poster was referring to gray-scale images, so
- >all this color discussion is irrelevant. I've noticed the same difference
- >between displaying and printing *any* gray-scale images (not just lossy-
- >compressed). I think the effect springs from the fact that a typical
- >monitor inherently does a small amount of lowpass filtering, so that the
- >pixel boundaries are less noticeable on a monitor. There may be other
- >causes as well, but this is probably one of them.
-
- The major problem is that the monitor is able to display gray levels,
- while the printer does only black or white. It makes a marvelous attempt
- at pretending to do gray by varying the numbers and positions of the
- black dots it puts on the paper, but it is still only an approximation.
-
- The standard PostScript printer has 300 dpi, but only reproduces 53
- lines per inch and 33 levels of gray, by default. If you want full
- resolution from the printer (300 dpi, you get only two shades: black and
- white. There are several other "halftone screens" available, but the
- best number of grays is, as I recall, 39.
-
- For more information, look in this month's Radio Electronic's, the
- Hardware Hacker column.
-
- A 2400 dpi printer should do much better than this, but it is still only
- writing an approximation to gray.
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