The science of printing in the 1960s
I think that Paul Luna's post on the advent of photo-typesetting technologies in the 50s and 60s is worth mentioning here, and not only for that fabulous workflow diagram! Over this era, the early stages of the printing process move from being 'inky' to 'scientific' (Luna's words). Incipient forms of computer-aided design were accompanied by the rise of exacting standards in specification -- the engineering-like planning and description of a piece to be printed.
