How many dpi for a standard screen?

I understand dpi to be a printing resolution for the type of printer that you are going print to. Dots per inch refers to how many dots are printed on paper within a square inch.

Magazines use 300+ dpi, to ensure that the reader sees a smooth image, but if you look closely at a magazine, you will see that almost every bit of colour on the page will have a series of dots of varying sizes made from CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW and BLACK and variation of dot sizes between all four colours gives us the wide ranging colours that we see in magazines. If you look at a newspaper, the course paper they use means that the dots used to produce the same image as that in a magazine have to be bigger. This reduces the amount of dots you can fit within an inch. If you look at a newspaper, you will see the dots that make up an image much easier than the same image if it was in a magazine printed on glossy paper.

In my mind, it doesn't matter if you have produce for 72 or 96 ppi (pixels per inch). The site you create will be governed by the users system, and whatever they are looking at, it should all be viewed at the system setting whether it is an image or text. Your site will look bigger on a 72 ppi system when compared to a 96 ppi system. If I post a 300 dpi image which is a 1000 pixels wide, it will only render on the screen a 1000 pixels wide... dpi becomes irrelevant in this instance.

Hi,

what do you think about asking Google and and its unfathomable fund?

http://www.google.de/#hl=de&source=hp&q=How+many+dpi+for+a+standard+screen%3F&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&fp=82db71a3d4afbf72

Hans-G.