![]() ![]() Apple Computer launched the Apple Lisa in 1983 with a user friendly graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse. Four companies were primarily responsible for the birth of DTP. During the mid 1980s there was an awesome convergence of technological stars. So let’s start where most people in the DTP field would consider the “birth” of DTP. It was a rather large, free standing computer, and was not designed for home or small business use. But personally, I consider this system to be a professional printing system, and don’t feel it fits into the “desktop” concept. Some will argue that the Pixel work station produced by the company Scitex, actually started the DTP revolution with the introduction of its work station in 1982. What we currently refer to as Desktop Publishing (DTP) has a history dating back to the mid 1980s. The History of Desktop Publishing: A Look Back at Old Technologies from the 80's and 90's ![]()
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