nostr:npub1eeetax7xxyr7mem486lqayj4av7czytttp9swjwn6yry6sn790lqrve209 On your college paper and the first 1,200 dpi printed screens you sent them—I would guess it was like 110 lpi or 133 lpi and newspapers at the time could hold, IIRC, 85 lpi from boards (higher from film, maybe). Worst college paper experience for me? I took a great photo of the new mayor on campus—the first African-American mayor in New Haven’s history—and our newspaper printer didn’t halftone it. He came out all black with white eyeballs. Now, I think the prints were racists.
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nostr:npub1eeetax7xxyr7mem486lqayj4av7czytttp9swjwn6yry6sn790lqrve209 At the time, I figured it was a huge production error (we never sent them halftoned images; they did all that work); now I’m pretty sure they were fuckers.
nostr:npub1hvdfn5ne7zvks3ztfewr00vdjv3kve4nddht43p8fjepc8rn6yasz69sq9 That sounds about right. I think we might’ve even settled at 60 LPI screens.