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Article: `Print unchained' reveals complex origins of digital printing juggernaut. (Book Review).
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- Printing News
- Article date:
- December 10, 2001
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Most printers, would say that digital printing began in the 1990s, with the introduction of the first digital presses. Edward Webster, a noted researcher and author specializing in the computer printer industry, sees and tells the digital printing stow another way in a dazzling new book titled, "Print Unchained: Fifty Years of Digital Printing, 1950-2000 and Beyond."
When the history of the printed word is finally finished (if ever), Mr. Webster may take a place of honor as the Charles Darwin who showed the interrelations, roots, and origins of the imaging process that may one day push aside offset--digital, on-demand printing by either toner or inkjet. Mr. ...