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It's only Kaleido that halves the resolution of colored content. The RM Pro is Gallery 3 and offers full-resolution color.


Though, the RM Pro has 229 ppi vs. the 300ppi for the scribe. So for black and white text, the scribe still has a small edge. But it would of course be cool, if the scribe eventually gets color at 300ppi.


In practice the resolution doesn't make a huge difference. (I've got both 300ppi and 207ppi BW e-ink devices and the antialiasing/gamma strategy makes more of a difference than the resolution.)

But a bigger difference is that Gallery 3 uses CMYW pigments; there's no black pigment, rather the microcapsules themselves are tinted black on one end, so the black ultimately ends up a little impure. Also there are only 4 shades of grey for antialiasing rather than 16.




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