50th: Long Road to Automation — From High Touch to Hi Tech

o Ink-jet printing "could be the most significant new imaging technology in the next 15 years, emerging from 40 to 55 years of experimentation to become as revolutionary as movable type." The process could mass produce newspapers, periodicals and books. [Doing the math puts the ink-jet revolution as having occurred by 1985, but 2008 has brought predictions of this being "The Ink-Jet Drupa."]