Over recent decades there has been scarcely any other industry that has undergone so much change as the printing industry. Nowdays, can anyone comprehend that in the 80s separated lithographic films were still etched in order to touch up images? No one disappears into the darkroom to enlarge or reduce the size of a graphic or photo with a process camera. Prepress and press, order processing too has altered greatly. To begin one worked with manageable estimating software but now the talk is of MIS (management information systems) and the solutions have become correspondingly more pervasive and complex. More is expected too from estimators and planners, who now, for example, must enter key data precisely for automated imposition, whereas in the past this was something that would have been handled during assembly and production.
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