Abstract

Reprography, which originally referred only to printing and duplicating processes for the reproduction of flat originals, today includes a wide variety of technologies for the production of two-dimensional images in applications as diverse as photography, office copying, desktop publishing, graphic arts, medical imaging, and microelectronic fabrication. Although analog processes are still in wide use, the principal area of recent technical development and new application has been in digital electronic imaging systems, and especially in optical methods for non-impact hard copy printing.

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