WOA 50th ANNIVERSARY -- An Industry Time Line

1935—Heatset printing inks and paper coated on a machine are developed, allowing for the production of high-quality, four-color images on webfed letterpress presses for magazine production. These wet-color printing methods were developed by Time Inc. The use of color photographs begins to appear in Life magazine. Eastman Kodak Laboratories produces a color scanner and Time Inc. develops an electronic scanner—called the PDI scanner—while others such as RCA, Fairchild, Crosfield and Hell refine the technology even further.