I suppose that's theoretical-most find they don't need 300 ppi. Most people, with good 4 MP cams are getting excellent 5 x 7's and 8 x 10's with photo printers--esp. the Epsons (and I hear the new Canons also). If you do a bit of bicubic resampling/resizing in PS or use Qimage to print with (it uses Lanzos interpolation), you will get terrific 8 x 10's. I just printed some 11 x 14 prints from my Oly E10 4.1 MP--I did resample/resize in PS though. The other route is to use Genuine Fractals. In reality, you will get very very good prints with 240 ppi on the Epson photo printers--and many say they get good ones at 180--depending upon the image. Diane