[fa.laser-lovers] imagen 24/300

laser-lovers@uw-beaver (04/09/85)

From: sob%talcott@harvard.ARPA (Scott O Bradner)


an example of the neverending pursuit of accuracy:

	Electronics news, Monday, April 8 1985
	pp 33

	...
	    Imagen's newest printer - the 24/300 -
	prints at 24 ppm and has a resolution of
	90,000 dots per inch.

	...

laser-lovers@uw-beaver (04/13/85)

From: DE@GODZILLA.SCH.Symbolics.COM

    Date: Mon, 8 Apr 85 20:07:54 EST
    From: sob%talcott@harvard.ARPA (Scott O Bradner)

    an example of the neverending pursuit of accuracy:

	    Electronics news, Monday, April 8 1985
	    pp 33

	    ...
		Imagen's newest printer - the 24/300 -
	    prints at 24 ppm and has a resolution of
	    90,000 dots per inch.

	    ...

YOW!!!!! Speaking of accuracy, I hope you mean 90,000 
dots per SQUARE inch, or 300 dots per inch.

Otherwise you would need 89,100 MBytes of memory to 
hold an 8" x 11" page image.

Whereas you would only need 1 MByte at 300 DPI.