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LPI
Liner Per Inch. A measure of resolution, usually screen frequency in halftone.
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LPI (Lines per Inch)
The frequency of horizontal and vertical lines in a halftone screen.
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LPI - Stands for lines per inch. LPI measures the frequency of lines a printer can create while halftoning.

LPI:
Short for lines per inch; refers to the frequency of horizontal and vertical lines on a halftone screen.
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LPI
Lines per inch, usually used to refer to screen size or the resolution of an output device. See screen.
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LPI (Lines Per Inch)
A measurement unit of print resolution that relates to the frequency of the half-tone screening. Common LPI numbers are 85 for newsprint, 133 for magazines, and 150, 175, or 200 for high quality reproduction.

LPI: Lines per inch. Measure of resolution for halftones.
Luminance: One of the components of an HSL (hue, saturation, luminance) RGB (red, green, blue) image on a video monitor.

Lines Per Inch (LPI) - The yardstick used to measure halftone resolution.
Luminance - The brightness or intensity of an image. Determined by the amount of gray in a hue, luminance reflects the lightness or darkness of a color.

lines per inch (LPI)
the number of dots per inch. (As a general rule the higher the dot count per inch, the higher the resolution).

One more sample -- my Dad photographed a lot of papers after the war (no xerox in 1946!). I think the typewriter was 6 LPI, 10 CPI. An 8.5 x 11 page fills the 35 mm frame at this magnification.

See also: Resolution, Print, Image, Pixel, Brightness

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