An Old Printer Looks Back--Waldman

A year later the Mac equipped with the first desktop publishing program, Aldus PageMaker, together with the Apple LaserWriter, set the forces in motion. And the key was the first usage of Adobe PostScript, which made it all possible.

Gridiron Memories

While I clearly remember the Super Bowl commercial and the subsequent introduction of the LaserWriter, Adobe PostScript and PageMaker, I can't say that I realized the true impact at that time. Like most printers, I probably was preoccupied trying to process a room full of mechanicals through a room full of offset strippers to produce a room full of stripped flats. Thus, this historic January 1984 introduction—which was the beginning of the end for mechanicals, stripped flats and strippers—was barely noticed by most printers.