Re: [artworks] Bitmap image size and DPI

  • From: Eddie <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:41:50 +0100

In message <0c86b4c74f.tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote thus:

> In message of 31 Jul, Clive Bonsall <cbonsall@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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>> 
>> To my eyes this is quite a high resolution image. Can it really be just
>> 72 DPI -- or am I misunderstanding the relationship between resolution
>> and DPI?

> Screen pixels per inch is not the same as printer dots per inch.

As an aside, scanner resolution is also not the same as printer dots 
per inch.

A useful website is...

 http://www.scantips.com/

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Kind Regards
Eddie
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