On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:50:24 -0700, aimcompute wrote: > I have noticed that scanner mfr.'s use the term interchangeably. For > instance Minolta lists their scanner resolutions in dpi.
I've always thought of it as "pixels" each have all of the color vectors (R, G, and B, or C, M, Y, and K, or whatever), whiles "dots" have only one color vector. Sort of like the difference in color scanner sensors and digicam sensors. The color scanner samples all of the colors at each pixel while the digicam (generally) only samples one color at each pixel, then interpolates the other colors. Printers generally get described in "dots" while scanners and monitors in "pixels". YMMV TTYL, DougF - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
