I grew up in a family printing business and remember machines much more like the CompuGraphic 7500 in their production process than what's here. By that point t

I grew up in a family printing business and remember machines much more like the CompuGraphic 7500 in their production process than what's here. By that point they loaded off of 5.25" floppies (two drives IIR) and had two screens, a green command screen and a vertical preview screen that could render a font or two and some text before committing it to photographic paper printout. They kept it until well into the late 90s even though they had generally moved on to a PC-based workflow in prepress much earlier. Doing odd typesetting jobs when their department guy was out was how I got my start in computers. The next page on the site showing the platemaking process is also incredibly familiar: http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/woverbeck/dtr6.htm http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/woverbeck/dtr6.htm I can still smell and feel the industrial soap they used to get to wash up after prepping the plates. There's a lot of work that's gone into preserving early printing, but I think that this era really deserves some more love as well. So many creative ideas went into the process that gave us cheap consumer ready mass printing.