1982 – Web offset, Trinitron & Sun
• Web offset presses are the hot topic at drupa, the world’s largest trade show for print and media.
• Sony releases its first Trinitron monitor. These monitors will be the reference in the graphic arts market for many years.
• For the first time vendors use generic personal computers for their photocomposition systems. Typecraft Systems Ltd. markets inexpensive terminals based on the Commodore Pet personal computer. Linotype-Paul Ltd. introduces the APL-100 and APL-200 video input keyboards which use Apple II hardware.
• Sun is incorporated in February 1982, with four employees.
• Agfa becomes a major shareholder in Compugraphic. It acquires the company 6 years later.
• Great-Britain and Argentina fight over the Falkland islands.
• Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies.
• The album Thriller from Michael Jackson is released and quickly becomes a million seller.
• The space shuttle Columbia makes its first mission.
• E.T. phones home.