WOA 50th ANNIVERSARY -- An Industry Time Line

1998—Quad/Graphics' Saratoga Springs, NY, print production plant reportedly becomes the first web offset facility to offer 100 percent digital services (digital photography, digital proofing, telecommunications and digital output to plates and cylinders). The printer's other plants soon follow.

2000—At DRUPA in Germany, Sun Chemical and Flint Ink both announce their intent to develop single-fluid inks that eliminate the necessity to balance ink and water on-press.