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Me thinks you are confusing. . .
Old 07-16-2006, 04:08 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Dots Per Inch with Pixels Per Inch. One relates to printers and the other relates to monitors. Monitors are rated in Pixels not dots. The old standard was 72 ppi for PC's and 96 ppi for the Mac's. And then along came better monitors and video cards. Still the web standard for most is 72 ppi.
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