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Now that we’ve got a foundation of display resolution, let’s take a look at translating this concept into print.
New Terms:
- Dots (print) -- unit of measurement for print resolution made up of cyan, magenta, yellow and or black.
- Subpixels -- the individual colors elements of red, green, or blue that make up a single pixel.
- PPI -- Pixels Per Inch; the density of pixels that will be printed.
- DPI -- Dots Per Inch; the density of a printed dot typically used by offset print presses.
- Offset Printing -- a method of printing whereby an image is created on a plate and transferred to the paper.
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When browsing the web, we often see images
that appear high quality and look great.
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However, I'm sure everyone
has seen just the opposite
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when you've gone to print
that high quality image.
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Perhaps it's smaller than you thought.
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Perhaps it's blurry or chunky.
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When we print something,
we have to work with ink and
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need to translate pixels
into something else, dots.
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A single pixel's illuminated on a screen
with subpixels, which give us the colors.
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These subpixels emit a combination of red,
green, and blue light, or RGB.
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