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Originally Posted by idrougge
It wasn’t until you had hundreds of megabytes of RAM and hundreds of megahertz CPUs that it was realistic to produce a document incorporating both text and photos suitable for direct transfer to a printing plate.
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Sorry but that just isn't true. The
files sent to the printer may have been hundreds of Megabytes, but the computer that produced them didn't have to keep everything in memory at once in full resolution.
We used Professional Page on an A2000 to produce the box art, CD inserts and manuals for the programs we published. It created CMYK postscript separation files, which we sent to a local printing firm who had a Linotronic imagesetter. IIRC we set the pixel resolution to 150 dpi because going any higher was pointless due to the
screen ruling of their offset printing press.
I don't remember how much RAM that A2000 had, but it certainly wasn't 'hundreds of Megabytes', and this was in 1992 so it couldn't have had more than a 50MHz 030.