• QuarkXPress 3.3 ships and remains the leading page design tool for many years.

• Scitex releases Brisque, a Unix-based workflow system that uses CT/LW as its internal file format. This popular digital front-end which reaches an installed based of around 7000 users remains in active development until 2002.

• Another new Scitex product that will become very popular and win numerous awards is the EVERSMART scanner.

• Microsoft include Microsoft Publisher in the Small Business Edition of Office ‘97.
• The $4295 Barco Personal Calibrator is a typical example of Barco’s range of high-end monitors for color-critical retouching work. LaCie and Eizo are competing popular brands.

• Adobe and Microsoft surprise the entire industry by announcing the joint development of a new font format codenamed OpenType. Its specs are published in 1997 but the first fonts only become available in 2000.

• The HP 750/755C inkjet printer is a popular choice of imposition proofing as well as the occasional poster job.

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen acquires Linotype-Hell.
• In the USA more e-mail is sent than postal mail.

<1995 - 1997>