A print shop on your desk

Nation's Business, March, 1986 by Karen Berney

Industry analysts say electronic publishing systems will become as ubiquitous in the office as the copier. Declining prices and a widening array of new capabilities such as color output will continue to keep old customers coming back and draw new ones into the fold.

And if the early success of DTP proves anything at all, it is that people are yearning for more, not less paper. What the forecasters of paper's demise neglected to consider was that someday people would want to transfer all the wonderful things done by black boxes onto paper that does not look and feel like a computer printout.