PI's 45th ANNIVERSARY -- From Art To Science

1983-88

The pace of innovation in the 1980s makes it hard to do the decade justice by taking a snapshot of just one year. The introduction of the first Macintosh computer in 1984 proved to be a pivotal link in a chain of developments that "revolutionized" the graphic arts.

The very language of the industry was transformed with the introduction of terms such as desktop publishing (DTP), WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), PostScript imagesetting, RIP, bleeding edge technology, good enough color, high-fidelity color, stochastic/frequency-modulated screening and sneaker net. How many people in the industry today have even seen a Syquest disk?