Members of TAGA value the organization because it gives a glimpse into the future of graphic technology. There are many examples from the past that bear out this assertion. In the 1950s, TAGA published a series of papers about electronic color separation nearly two decades before it came into common usage. Similarly, projection platemaking was investigated and developed through a series of stages long before the laser platesetters of the 1990s became practical for writing aluminum plates directly from digital files.
In the area of halftone screening, frequency modulation was disclosed through TAGA papers in the early 1980s before the first FM screens were released to the market. Similarly, ...