Printing resolution?

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Hi,
I'm about to buy a new printer and I was wondering what difference if any
that I'd find between an inkjet printer that will do up to 4800x1200 dpi as
compared to one that prints up to 2400x2400 dpi?

Thanks
 
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In the early days of inkjet printers, resolution actually mattered,
because it was low enough that differences in dot density made a
difference. Early inkjet printers were 150 dpi in each direction, then
300, 600, then 720 and so on.

There comes a point where the numbers become less and less significant.
These numbers actually refer to the addressable locations for a dot.
In fact, even with the smallest dots offered (about 1 picolitre) they
would tend to overlap at 4800 dpi.

Also, these resolutions are based upon one dot of color, while to create
complex colors on ink jet, even with 6 or more ink colors, may require 8
or more dots to manifest the color.

More important that these resolution numbers is probably the dot size (1
to 2 (even 3) picolitre per dot isn't unreasonable) and speed of
printing, since some of these high resolutions can slow down the
printing speed.

Within the resolution ranges you mention, I would not place the reported
resolution as a deal breaker. Look at color accuracy, speed, overall
print quality and replacement ink and paper costs.

Art
 
Upscale said:
Hi,
I'm about to buy a new printer and I was wondering what difference if any
that I'd find between an inkjet printer that will do up to 4800x1200 dpi as
compared to one that prints up to 2400x2400 dpi?
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Whilst my printer will do 2880 dpi, I use 1440. It's plenty fine enough
(I can't see the dots), and prints faster.

Jim Ford
 
Richard said:
Jim, what are you printing and what are you printing on?
I find that for black printing on plain paper, including photos, for
technical documentation, a resultion of 600x600 is perfectly adequate.
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I print colour photos on A4 at 1440x1440. For B&W I use a laser printer
at 600x600.

Jim Ford
 
Jim said:
Whilst my printer will do 2880 dpi, I use 1440. It's plenty fine enough
(I can't see the dots), and prints faster.
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Jim, what are you printing and what are you printing on?
I find that for black printing on plain paper, including photos, for
technical documentation, a resultion of 600x600 is perfectly adequate.

Richard
 
Arthur Entlich said:
Wanna buy a nice bridge?
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Is it a nice bridge? :)
Within the resolution ranges you mention, I would not place the reported
resolution as a deal breaker. Look at color accuracy, speed, overall
print quality and replacement ink and paper costs.
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Thanks, that's what I need to know. It's the HP business inkjet 2300 that I
was considering for the home office and those criteria you've mentioned
above *are* more important to me than esoteric colouring capabilities.
 
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