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Jan 1, 1455
Movible type of handpress publising was made.
Movable type and the hand press combined to create numerous
nearly identical Bibles.
This was the beginning of mass production -
Photographic “cold type” came into wide use
Typesetters had to re-type the copy while entering coding for formatting. It was the biggest change in the past 500 years. -
THE Mac first computer came out
The Macintosh Computer was introduced in 1984. The “Mac” introduced the
Graphic User Interface to consumer computing.
The Mac’s built in fonts were bitmap. Cost: $2495 with 128k of RAM -
Adobe purchased Aldus and Pagemaker
This started apple being a jugernaut in computers. -
THE Laserrwriter
debuted in 1985 with built in Postscript fonts.
At almost $7,000 it was the first “affordable” high resolution printer.
It printed 8 pages per minute and weighed a hefty 77 pounds. -
Quark Xpress
it quickly developedsuperior typographic and long document features and became the industry standard for print publishing. Newspapers, magazines, and brochures were almost universally produced in Quark. -
Adobe Illustrator 1.0
debuted in 1987. It was soon followed by Illustrator 88 -
Adobe Photoshop 1.0
debuted in 1989 Scanners and colorprinters were high-end professional equipment. -
Pagemaker last update.
It is no longer supported. -
Adobe InDesign 1.0
It took several versions to be accepted by the design and pre-press communities.
