Apple's LaserWriter started the desktop publishing revolution by making WYSIWYG a new standard that we've come to expect.
Combined with a Macintosh computer, Adobe Postscript technology, and Aldus PageMaker software, it made desktop publishing a reality. Apple’s earlier printer, the ImageWriter was a dot-matrix ...
By comparison, desktop publishing only started with Pagemaker in 1985 ... A pissing match between Adobe and Steve Jobs ended with Adobe nonsensically backing down and killing off Flash.