cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson) (06/02/90)
In article <1237@mtxinu.UUCP> jaap@mtxinu.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis) writes: > >But why are 300dpi printers not 300 in general? At the introduction >of the Agfa P400 they told me the next story: > >Their printer is marketed as a 400 dpi model, but if you really >look in the specs, it is actually something like a 406 dpi. The >406 dpi make a nice figure in a metric system. > >H'm, if you get your calculator out you can see that that doesn't >make a lot of sense, so it might be yet another urban legend. > It makes sense to me: 16/mm = 406.4/in. Chris Thompson JANET: cet1@uk.ac.cam.phx Internet: cet1%phx.cam.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk