Originally posted by Carl
fun fact: print resolution for professional digital print-outs actually is 300 dpi.
Uhm, yeah, exactly. I guess this was my bad that I assumed people were aware of this. Oops.
Originally posted by Drew
i dont think that its quite the same thing...
screens vs paper?
nahhhhhhhhh..............
(or am i missing the point sandwich)
I think you're missing the point. Grab a high-quality printed sheet of paper. Look at the letters. Can you see the "pixels" each letter is composed of? Probably just barely. Most likely there are 300 of those "pixels" (points in print-speak) every inch - each one is 1/300th of an inch in size.
Now look at your computer screen. See the pixels? there are probably no more than 100-120 pixels per inch. You can see the stair-step effect on diagonal lines (aliasing), you can see the difference in quality between text in the Times New Roman font at 12 point on screen (looks like crap, to be honest), and that same text and size when printed (niiice).
Ok so far?
Now imagine that your computer screen was displaying everything it currently has on it at the same size (your browser window is 6 inches tall or so, etc), but it's using many many more pixels to display that same image. Fonts - even at 8 point - look smooth. Single-pixel diagonal lines of the past can now appear to be the same width, but actually be 3 pixels in width, allowing a much smoother blending of the line with its BG.
Et cetera, et cetera.
