Frankly Speaking: A Brief History of the Short Run
Or: How digital printing will save us all.
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Frank Romano
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In 1976-1978 the IBM 3800 roll-fed and Xerox 9700 sheet-fed digital printers introduced a new approach to printing. But the infrastructure for accepting files, electronically collating pages and binding one book at a time was not available. It was 1990 before the Xerox DocuTech was able to produce one bound book at a time, and the late '90s before color-bound books were produced in the same manner.
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Frank Romano is Professor Emeritus at RIT School of Media Sciences.
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