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Desktop publishing is more than software, it’s a series of connected events that make Moore’s Law so interesting. It’s the incredible decreases in prices and sharp increases in capabilities of equipment that have made it so. A $1,000 scanner is almost considered “high-end” in today’s digital photography world, and has features and capabilities when combined with modern software that are far more capable than a $200,000 scanner of 1980. The range of equipment has certainly expanded. A 5-megapixel camera can often be found for less than $200 A 1 megapixel camera in the 1980s was $25,000 and was virtually limited to industrial applications.