WOA 50th ANNIVERSARY -- An Industry Time Line

1940—During the early 1940s, the use of web offset increased in the printing of business forms. About a decade later, web offset was used more frequently for magazine and book production, as well as in the commercial printing field. Large print orders of 50,000 or more were considered suitable for these presses. They were equipped with ovens and dryers. At the time, some of them cost more than $1 million.