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I first crossed paths with John Lacagnina when he brought to market the world’s first network production printing solution through his company at the time, Entire. Over the ensuing years, he has continued to innovate and bring dynamic change to the industry. Learn more about his story, his thoughts about the industry, and what he’s up to today.
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Back in the 1980s, as networks started gaining critical mass, John Lacagnina and his partners John Webb and Peter Mason saw an opportunity to provide a network printing solution that could give high-speed printing access to document owners. “Documents were increasingly being created on the desktop and printed on networked printers,” he says. “Up to that point, high-speed production printers could only talk to IBM mainframes. We wanted to make the connection to where documents were being created using desktop publishing and enable direct Postscript printing.”
