Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Pixel sizes on different monitors (Ray Sanders, via Macintouch)

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The iBook 12" screen pixel pitch is very small, yet my aging eyes reads text readily there ...
Ray Sanders provided a table comparing pixel sizes for a variety of monitors:

Pixel Pitch
(mm) DPI 12-point equiv. Notes

0.353 72 12 traditional Mac glass CRT
0.339 74.9 11.5 another common glass CRT
0.297 85.5 10.1 I saw something at the Dell site with this pitch
0.294 86.4 10 Dell 1905FP
0.28 90.7 9.5 calculated, est. pitch of the 14.1-in iBook
0.258 98.4 8.8 current models of Apple Cinema Displays
0.254 100 8.6 center point of today's crop of flatscreens
0.24 105.8 8.2 calculated, est. pitch of the 12.1-in. iBook
Compare to printing at 300 dpi.

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