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CHAPTER 8

Output Methods

If you consider the extent to which character sets, encoding methods, font formats, and

typography have been discussed thus far, it is clearly an appropriate time to discuss how

CJKV text can be output or displayed through the use of devices such as printers and

displays. You learned about font formats and related matters in Chapter 6, then about

typography and composition in Chapter 7, but now comes the time when you must nally

display, print, or otherwise output the CJKV text that you so carefully composed into

documents or smaller text fragments. Printers can range from low-resolution dot-matrix

printers to high-resolution photo imagesetters costing tens of thousands of dollars.

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vast majority of advances seem to be in the area of displays. e resolution has become

quite high, to include HDTV-like quality, even for mobile devices such as cell phones.

Regardless of what output device is being used, whether it is a computer monitor, a mobile

device display, a dot-matrix printer, or even a high-resolution photo imagesetter, the most

basic unit of output is either a pixel (in the case of computer monitors or other displays)

or a dot (in the case of printers). e resolution of both types of output devices is usually

expressed in units called DPI, short for dots-per-inch. e most commonly used printers

today are 600-dpi or greater laser printers ...