Forget the 300 dpi/150 lpi rule

A 150 lpi screening means that 150 dots are printed per inch in both the horizontal and vertical axes. Likewise, a 300 dpi resolution means that there are 300 x 300 pixels in one square inch.

Doubling the resolution means that the RIP has to calculate an average of 4 pixels to create every screen dot. Since binuscan IPM performs this operation when it re-calculates images, only 200 dpi are required for a 175 or 150 lpi screening. Two hundred dpi is the adequate resolution because, in order to achieve higher quality, the IPM bases its sharpening directly on the screen dot, not the pixels used to create the dot.

At 200 dpi the filesize of the image is half that of 300 dpi and, consequently, is transferred twice as fast and ripped four times faster, producing even better quality.

Optical resolutions needed for various Paper sizes and slides in order to print a 200dpi image file (150 or 175lpi)


Paper formats A6 A5 US Letter A4 A3 A2 A1 A0
Dimensions(cm) 10.5x14.8 14.8x21 8'1/2 x 11 21x29.7 29.7x42 42x59.4 59.4x84 84x118
24x36 mm original 825 1167 1800 1650 2333 3300 4666 6600
6.0x6.0 cm original 495 700 932 990 1400 1980 2800 3960
4'x5' original 234 331 440 468 661 936 1322 1872


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