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“The Print Shop” Turned People into Banner Wizards in the 1980s
- Panino 5y agoIn the 80s I used an Apple //e to print loads of things with Print Shop. It was a joy to use and seeing the screenshots brings back great memories.
- PaulHoule 5y agoI wrote a banner maker for the trs-80 coco circa 1986 that made graphics for the dot matrix printer better than what I could draw on the screen.
- themodelplumber 5y agoI'm curious, are there work environments where people still print banners on modern printers? I remember when I first saw the difference between dot matrix and 300 DPI laser quality. Then a little later I got to use a 600 DPI laser...I took all my publishing design work to B&W at that point. Years of faded dot matrix graphics were happily put behind me. But the banner just isn't the same when the paper is taped together, or is it? Next we'll see an article about how great PIMs were...well, or any of those P-acronyms...which was better, PIF file format, or PIM software? Or PCX graphics?