Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/01

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Subject: [Leica] Re: [LUG] Re: Digital storage???
From: Steve <steve@mvillage.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 12:08:49 +0000
 
Thomas Kachadurian wrote:
> 
> Steve:
> 
> You are confusing a few things that are different, but sound the same.
> 
> DPI: Dots per inch that a printer can resolve
> 
> PPI: Pixels per inch in an image data file
> 
> 
> I hope this helps. But plan to be confused, because those of us in the business refer to all of them as DPI, because we're lazy and we know that when we are talking about files we mean PPI and halftones & color seps we mean LPI.
> 
> Tom
>