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Re: Nielsen's Rating

Subject: Re: Nielsen's Rating
From: "Kathy E. Gill" <techwriter -at- cyberwriter -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 18:30:04 -0700

At 2:43 PM -0500 6/22/01, Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- jci -dot- com wrote:

You can use fonts in a PDF that would be a strain on the 72 dpi
output monitor but would look great at 300dpi laser printer.

Let's dispel the myth of the 72 dpi monitor right now. That's a dot pitch
of .35mm. Most monitors these days are .28mm or better, which is more like
90 dpi. Flat-screen LCD monitors, rapidly replacing CRTs, go as high as

ummm ... so what is the "exchange" rate of old monitors for new ones at major corporations? government agencies? universities? the places where _most_ computers exist?

I won't argue that most new monitors have a smaller dot pitch than those sold five years ago -- but not all do. Nor have all 'old' monitors been replaced.

And we still have the issue of projected versus reflected light.

I also don't think the difference between 72 dpi and 90 dpi is _that_ great when we are comparing it with 300dpi or better in *printed* matter.

Also - I'd love to see a citation where someone has this sort of information in a *documented* manner.



Kathy

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