• German company Helios for the first time shows EtherShare, a Unix based file and print server to which they later add OPI and color management features. Running on a Sun system, such as the SparcStation 5, this is the workhorse of many prepress companies who love the fact that such a system only needs an occasional reboot every year or so.

• CorelDRAW 1.0, a vector based drawing application, ships for Windows 3.1. With later releases, Corel introduces the concept of graphic suites.

• Linotype AG acquires Hell GmbH from Siemens

• ColorStudio, a color image-editing program from Letraset, is technically superior to Photoshop but twice as expensive at $1,995. Sales don’t live up to expectations and Letraset eventually abandons the software market.

<1988 - 1990>