| A | B |
|---|
| Resolution | How well an image is resolved |
| Printer Resolutioin | measured in DPI |
| Vector | Images can be printed at any resolution & can be scaled to any size without losing quality |
| Raster | Bitmap; made of pixels & cannot be scaled without losing quality |
| Ink Jet | Printer is wet & spreads as it touches paper |
| Laser | Printer is a dry toner heated up & transferred to the paper |
| DPI | Dots per inch |
| PPI | Pixels per inch |
| Halftone | Screen; a pattern used as a linescreen when printing greyscale |
| 24 Bit | 16.7 million colors |
| 8 Bit | 256 colors |
| Monitor Resolution | Depends on how much color the monitor can display |
| 5 dpi | there are 5 dots in an inch |
| 300 dpi | there are 300 dots in an inch |
