• Creo and Scitex merge.

• Illustrator 9 is the first Adobe application to support transparency. Other programs such as Corel Draw already did this for ages but it is Adobe’s marketing department that manages to convince designers that transparency is a must-have feature that should be used on every single page they create.

• Screen introduces Trueflow, a prepress workflow based on an Adobe PostScript 3 interpreter and Screen’s own powerful imposition and trapping engines. It is the first major web browser based workflow, mainly targetting the lower end of the market.

• At Drupa, Agfa introduces a version of its Galileo CtP system which can image visible light violet plates. The thermal-versus-violet debate rages on for several years, to be replaced by the discussions surrounding process-free technologies 5 to 6 years later.

• At the same show the Screen FlateRite 1050 shows that 4-up (B2) printers are also ready to make the move to CtP.

• Dynagram Software introduces the Macintosh version of its imposition application DynaStrip.

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