Digital Education - Electronic Course Packs

Digital Printers Arrive

When high-speed digital printers became available, they offered a new way of handling these stacks of paper.

The first stage of electronic packet creation was merely to scan hard copy originals. The dependability of the scanning process and quality of the printed page were definite improvements, but the filing of the original manuals did not change. At this point, less than half of the packet titles—which had grown to well over 300—were printed on one Xerox DocuTech. The rest of the packets were still being printed in satellite centers.