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From: isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( ISR group account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FAX OR COMPUTER: WHICH IS BETTER FOR PIC TRANSMISSION
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Date: 26 Sep 89 20:38:33 GMT
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Reply-To: isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michael S. Schechter - ISR group account)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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A laser printer in the 300-400 dpi range will NOT give
results as good as a FAX. Your fax machine is probably 100x200
dpi resloution. A 300 dpi printer, has 300dpi at 1 gray level.
at 64 gray levels, it will have  around 37 dpi, which sucks.
if you wanted t, and it was physically possible, you could
print out your pictures on the printer at 64-gray levels at
twice their size, then reduce them to normal size photographically
(or xerographiclly) This gives results that are (barely) newspaper
quality.
--
 Mike Schechter, Institute for Sensory Research, Syracuse Univ.
 isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu    -or-    msschech@rodan.syr.edu