The '90s In Review - New Trends Aren't So New

Buried Gold

One of the biggest changes to the traditional in-plant environment was announced in 1990. Buried on page 39 of our October issue that year was an article on the announcement of the Xerox DocuTech Production Publisher, "a device that can produce black-and-white pages, booklets, newsletters or similar documents from start to finish." Of course, that first model could only scan its input, but its ability to store documents digitally started a revolution in the way in-plants would print, bringing the phrase "on-demand printing" into widespread use.