Fresh out of college, I took a job at a local printer. I'm guessing, 1990ish? The owner went to a trade show, and a week later a giant pile of boxes was in the middle of our "paste up" room...that's right...giant light tables, waxer machines, and a few old film typesetters was what I was using for a year or so, until this fateful day. In the boxes were two macs, I forget now which ones, oh wait, IIci, that was them. And two Supermac or Radius 19" color monitors...but the highlight was a giant laserprinter, not by apple, but by some company from Minnesota if I recall. It was not 300dpi, but 600dpi. It was the grand master of laser printers. It was around $10K for that printer, and $25K for everything. I remember it quite well. He just said "hey, we're going to switch to this stuff, so get it set up and figure it all out"...I had used a mac in school, as part of the printing press classes, not the commercial art/design part of school. But it was just for fun, not to be used for real work. I digress. The dude who worked in the darkroom taking the film from the typesetters and stripped them into paper to burn plates came in. I said "you're going to love this, I'll be able to just give you a sheet of paper to paste up, no more artboards, wax, masking the lines with opaque paint, etc." and he said, and I remember it well, "no thanks, I'll just keep doing my thing, and you do your thing, that stuff won't look nearly as good as the typesetter". And 6 months later he quit. And 30+ years later I'm still doing what I did back then, on Macs, with a laser printer nearby. That was a magic time, all thanks to Steve and Co.
