Offset's Rough Road To Prominence

That explosion was like the shot heard round the world. But the agent that propelled this revolutionary blast was not gunpowder but the introduction of color electronic publishing systems, or CEPS.

Developed to automate high-end color separation and display on-screen page makeup design—two of the last and most persistent problems still hectoring offset—CEPS was revolutionary because it delivered easier color production and what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) pagination.