The Impacts of Information Technology in Printing Industry

Information technology is a cooperatively run, globally distributed collection on computer networks that exchange information via a common set of rules. It first started around 1980 as a government-funded project that would allow communications to the event of a nuclear attack.
The management in information technology system then grew larger and become the most important industry in United States of America and other countries at that time.
Many issues and problems have landed to some big companies at that particular time. These companies and organizations took some initiatives to handle these problems by becoming more aware about the information technology breakthrough.
Every single company had prepared themselves with own principles and targets to control every step of company moves. By the year 1999, the information technology grew to 68%, topping one-half trillion dollars and far outpacing the growth of the overall US economy. By the start of the century, only between one and one-half of AS was online, much on that on slow phone connections.
Withour question, the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) are playing an increasingly significant role in our everyday lifes. They are transforming the way people work, the way we buy things, the way we entertain ourselves, the way business is conducted, and most important to printers, the way they communicate with customers.
The breakthrough of technology in the printing processes; Letterpress, Offset Lithography, Flexography, Screen Processes, and Gravure made steps of each processes more faster than ever before. Technology had upgraded the printing processes system. Although breakthrough can be considered as a revolution, the importance of printed products shall not be denied.
The printing process improved to the stage where it was possible to print more than200 full size multicolor sheets per minute; 100,000 or more copies in a day.Web-fed presses became more capable of even greater valume, multi-unit installations which could produce millions of copies of a newspaper or magazine in a matter of hours.
Technolgy improved the need for collection, classification, storage, retrieval, reproduction, and dissemination of data information to an ever widening and more demanding system.
The best technology applications on the printing processes is increasing the quality of the printing products. Metallic images are some of example from the breakthrough.
Digital printing workflow is another good example from the technolog revolution.
With modern digital communcation and data transmission technologies, which enable remote digital, proofing and printing, printers nowadays use a new phrase, 'distribute first, print later' which means the designs are show electrically to the customers thorugh the Internet before they can print it according to the customers specification and satisfaction.