Photoshop and lenticular printing

How do I know how many images do I need to use in photoshop if I am using a Canon printer with 9600 x 2400 dpi and the lens that I will be using is a 200 LPI lens?
Which of the two resolutions should I use and why?
Should I use dpi, lpi or ppi in order to calculate the number of images?

That was a new one on me, but it looks interesting.
http://www.world3d.com/gallery.html
http://www.world3d.com/faqs.html
http://www.vicgi.com/lenticular-tutorials.html

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Begin forwarded message:
From: Alina Hashim <[email protected]>
Date: May 11, 2011 8:25:20 AM GMT+04:00
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Photoshop Elements 9 prints and Previews are blank
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Hello,
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