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300dpi Camera?

Started Mar 8, 2005 | Discussions thread
imbsysop Veteran Member • Posts: 4,963
Re: BTW, do not confuse DPI with PPI...

Medic Laviña wrote:

imbsysop wrote:

Medic Laviña wrote:

DPI is equivalent to PPI only when printing in B&W. But when
printing in color, DPI should be 4x the PPI density if every pixel
is to be resolved. This is because a color printer basically mixes
4 dots of different ink colors (including black) per pixel.

sorry but that is absolutely NOT correct ..

PPI and DPI have nothing! to do with each other ...
ad nauseam ..

Let me quote what you've said:
"The dpi is a user applied & choosen pixel density for printing AND
the exact connotation is PPI (pixels per inch). The DPI definition
is purely printer based aka a 300PPI choice to define print size..."

maybe you should have understood from the context that the first "dpi" should have stood between quotes ? ..
It doesn't change one thing to the facts nor to the explanation ..

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