Dickeson--Making Relevant Data Decisions

Trouble is that those microprocessors that we believed were improving our decisions, but didn't, were beginning to have a profound impact on our printing process. Computers are for the estimating system, aren't they?

At first, computers took over typesetting starting in the '70s. Then one after another, color separating, page composition, platemaking, programmable logic control of our machines, computerized mail labels, and on and on. Our basis for daily decisions was obsolesced by the very black boxes we thought were just fancy adding machines.