Print Unchained : 50 Years of Digital Printing, 1950-2000 and Beyond - Hardcover

Webster, Edward

9780970261700: Print Unchained : 50 Years of Digital Printing, 1950-2000 and Beyond

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0970261705 ISBN 13: 9780970261700

Publisher: Dra of Vermont Inc, 2001

A triumphalist account by Webster, a frequent writer for the computer printer industry, who finds that such printers are usually relegated to footnotes in histories of technology. He argues that digital printing is not simply another development of Gutenberg's achievements, but a quantum leap that frees printing from the limitations of earlier technologies such as the printing press, photographic processes, and lithography. Bracketed by chapters on precursors and the future, he takes each decade in turn from the 1950s to the 1990s. Recent color decades are illustrated in color; earlier decades in monochrome. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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About the Author:

Edward Webster has researched and authored dozens of studies and reports for the computer printer industry and printing industry. He founded and directed Datek Information Services, Inc., a market, technology, and strategic information resource serving the digital printing and related industries. Currently he is consulting editor to I.T. Strategies, Inc.

Review:

". . . a true collectors item that people in the industry should consider a must-have." -- Noel Jeffrey in Print on Demand magazine, Mar/Apr 2001

"In 22 years of writing book reviews, this is the first book we have ever given our unreserved recommendation." -- The Kleper Report on Digital Printing, May, 2001

"Print Unchained" is a mandatory addition to the bookshelf." -- Hard Copy Observer, Feb. 2001

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