The history of prepress

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4 Comments to “The history of prepress”

  1. Ron MacLeod, on January 12th, 2008 at 11:01 am Said:

    Hi folks,

    Neat library page. I forgot all about aldus which was a blast from the past. I once had a pre-press manager who used to curse computers and rave about the simplicity of lead plates. Alot of innovation in the last century so thanks for the trip.

    kind regards,

    Ron

  2. Joe, on January 16th, 2008 at 6:39 am Said:

    That was a great trip down memory lane. Thanks. Unfortunately I’m old enough to remember it all happening. Ha!

  3. Marc Lager, on January 17th, 2008 at 9:27 am Said:

    Scitex started the “desktop revolution” with the Pixet work station in 1982. I was one of the first to operate one for Graphic Arts Systems (Burbank, CA). We did not only photo retouching but page layout as well and output film on the ‘Erray” ouput (up to 30 x 40″ film size). The system incorporated HP 600mg Hard Drives for each workstation.

  4. Absar Ahmed, on February 6th, 2008 at 5:22 am Said:

    Brilliant! . . .
    Very engaging and one of the shortest introduction to modern Prepress history events, I have ever read. Every graphic design student needs it.

    Regards!

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