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
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