From: utzoo!decvax!duke!ucf-cs!tim Newsgroups: net.graphics Title: resolution questions Article-I.D.: ucf-cs.842 Posted: Wed Jan 26 00:54:01 1983 Received: Fri Jan 28 20:23:12 1983 At what resolution do you start to get really good print quality? CRT's with 512 X 512 resolution still can not draw a straight line from one corner to the diagonal. 1024 X 1024 seems to do okay (although the only one I've ever seen has been the Tek storage tube displays). In terms of dots/inch on hardcopy, 200 dots/inch on our Benson/Varian plotter looks nice but vtroffing out the documentation for "Mathematical Typesetting" really strains the resolution to a point that it begins to look bad. I seem to remember a disscussion on the net sometime back that talked about 500 dots/inch being acceptable and 1000 dots/inch as being printer quality. Comments? And my last point/question is: Would a hard copy stroke graphic device be useable vs. a raster device? You still need to provide programmable fonts and different point sizes etc. Is this still possible and practical with stroke (vector) drawing vs. raster (dots/inch)? Tim Curry USENET: ucf-cs!tim ARPANET: tim.ucf-cs@udel-relay