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That makes sense. Another comment pointed out that even the resolution of colored content (150 ppi) is half that of black-and-white content (300 ppi). Trying to take notes with bad refresh rates and lower resolution would not make for a good experience.

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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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