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Originally Posted by EOS_JD
If a printer prints at 300ppi and you want a print at 300ppi, the printer will print one drop of ink for every pixel in the image.
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Jim, I'm afraid that this premise is false which then renders a lot of your explanation as false. A single pixel can be one of many millions of colors whereas a drop of ink can only be one of the ink colors available from your certain printer.
For example, you can have a single pixel that is PMS 344 which is an aqua color. You don't have any printer inks that are aqua in color so therefore your printer will have to mix multiple dots to try to achieve that aqua color. The colors are mixed on the substrate, not in the printer itself so it's not like it mixes the inks inside, then drops a single aqua color of ink onto the paper.
Therefore a single pixel DOES NOT equal a single ink drop unless your pixel happens to match the available ink colors in your printer.
Normally, a printer has to drop multiple sizes of multiple colors of ink drops to try to render a single pixel.