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Discussion
By Henry Freedman on Mar 12, 2013
The original "web to print" system started in the late 1970's and was based on Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS)connected with a Sperry Univac mainframe in Philadlephia, PA and
experimented with at Pearl Pressman Liberty
Printer's, 5th and Poplar Street location. To see a little more about this look at http://henryfreedman.com/category/inventions/
and see how long it has taken to reach our industry. Initially most major vendors wanted nothing to do with this technlogy.