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Some experts trace the birth of digital printing to 1978, the year that the IBM 3800 and Xerox 9700 appeared. “Over time, these black-only (monochrome) printers came down in price and created printers of every size, shape, speed and capability,” says RIT's Frank Romano. “The Xerox DocuTech integrated inline binding in 1990, and within a few years, the low end of the offset duplicator market was a shadow of its former glory. In 1993 Indigo and Xeikon gave us digital color presses.” Romano explains that digital printing, also known as variable-data printing (VDP), means that every image is ...

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