If digital pictures are simply made up of a series of "0" and "1" digits, why can't you get a program that can decode the image into these numbers and you could print these numbers onto paper and later recreate the image using the print out?
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Jimmyz101
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Depending on the size of the image, that could be thousands of pages long! It's not an efficient way to do that, even though it could be done. If you think about it, though, when you put a picture file on a disc you are pretty much putting those 0's and 1's on that disc to transfer and later re-create it on another system to print.
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Here is a little math lesson for you. A small lo-res picture runs about 30 KB, or 30 kilobytes. One KB = 1024 Bytes, so we are up to about 30 * 1024 bytes or 30720 bytes. A byte is eight bits or binary digits, so that is 30720 bytes * 8 bits/byte = 245,760 bits. How many pages would 245,760 characters (1s and 0s) take? And if you have a big- hi-res image that is forty times that size or larger? That said, it IS technically possible. But why the hell would you abuse yourself thusly?
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You can!
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