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We began design and marketing in the distant days of print media and film photography, during the early 1980's, before desktop computer technology was first starting to be minimally useful for such work. Later in the 80's, there were still limited fonts and very weak software on SLOW desktops, and the bulk of our work was still done by hand on light tables with T-squares, X-acto knives, Veloxes, PMTs, hot wax for pasting, Rubylith, grids and acetate overlays. To achieve optimum quality, we also used a Mergenthaler typesetter, which produced crisp letters (from limited fonts) on a roll of photo paper that had to be developed by another machine, cut apart and pasted to make a page look right. All of our final work ended up on our Agfa-Gevaert process camera - a camera about the size of a large stove. Then, each 12" x 18" negative was developed, dried and overnighted to the appropriate printer - where it was used to burn an aluminum plate for offset printing. Color photographs required..