Offset's Rough Road To Prominence

With the introduction of computers into offset printing, presses could even detect and solve some of their own problems and prepare themselves for the next job. As a result, productivity and ease of use had never been higher.

Skipping The Film

Perhaps the most significant contribution to offset lithography at this time, was the advent of the direct-to-plate system. Page information could now be sent digitally to a platesetter, which then would read the information and expose it onto a polyester plate in register, eliminating the need for a negative.