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		Spooky23 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn't Make It (2022... That old device was 300 or even 150 dpi. The newer devices are 1200 dpi-ish. Smaller hole, more clog.

com2kid 5 months ago [–]

For greeting cards, 300dpi is fine.

For photos, the paper makes a huge difference, 1200 dpi on cheap paper is trash, 600 DPI on high quality photo paper looks good.

In the race for bigger numbers we lost out on reliability so now we have nothing. :/

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