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

The launch of USA Today had turned the newspaper segment on its ear in 1982, and the publisher was still leading the way technologically toward the end of the decade. It was now implementing satellite transmission of files to remote printing sites.

Other items of interest:

* When Printing Impressions' 30th anniversary issue came out, waterless printing was still about a year away from its roll-out for sheetfed printing applications. It quickly became a hot topic of conversation to close out the decade, though.