DPI is not a value thats realy associated with pixel images. its just something prorgrams that have been assigned for print accossiate for themselves.
In fact maya sets no dpi at all, and thats interpretted into 72dpi wich si not to say maya set the image to 72 dpi! maya just did pixels. So actualy dpi is justa a additional metadata wich most print capable progs add to the image.
howveer if you wanted a 10 inch image then at 300 dpi then youd need 300*10 pixels in taht dimenssion.
As such the term is mixedtherm dpi is bad sine its the same term for 3 different things, it owuld be better if the different dpi values would be differently named.
Se a 300 dpi pronter cant print colors at 300 dpi its more probably more colse to 30-60 dpi whan you take into account the raster size and oversampling. In general the lpi of a device is about 1/10 of the devices output dpi for 256 shades of color. And the target dpi (it would be great if they called this ppi) is good to be 1.5 to 2.1 times the devices apparent pixel size (lpi)
So target dpi= device LPI*1.5-2.1
whereas lpi depe3nds on the screen size, but in general if its a normal printer with no middleyes its about 1/10 of the device but in some new inkjets 1/5 or more likely 1/8. And offcourse to sublimation dye printers 1/1.
PS. dont double post it just clutters the forum up, and your nno more likely to get a good aswer that way.
