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WDV GmbH – 50 YEARS YOUR PARTNER FOR LARGE FORMAT SOLUTIONS 
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| 1968 | Foundation of WDV as System House for Scientific Data Processing |
| 1969-1972 | Development and production of a modular laboratory data acquisition system for the IBM 1130 process control computer. Marketing through IBM |
| 1973-1976 | System house for scientific computer applications; software and hardware for the following applications systems were developed: - EEG and EKG - Laboratory automation in clinics - Real time acquisition of analogue and digital data - Process data acquisition and processing |
| 1977 | Distribution of VERSATEC electrostatic plotters |
| 1978-1986 | Development and production of control units for connecting plotters to IBM and CDC mainframes |
| 1980 | Introduction of the first plot manager with WDV GSVP data conversion to the market |
| 1983 | Distribution of CalComp electrostatic plotters |
| 1987 | WDV presents the first HPGL compatible controller for a colour thermo transfer plotter |
| 1988 | Presentation of WDV 2400, the first A3 laser plotter with direct output of HPGL, CalComp, TIFF and CGM files. Connectivity to IBM mainframes using 3174 protocol on Coax |
| 1990 | Market introduction of WDV 800CL, the first world-wide multifunctional colour laser plotter |
| 1991 | WDV moves into its own company building north of Munich; 15 Mil. DM was invested in constructing a 6,000 m²building with development, production and storage areas on 10,000 m² of real estate |
| 1993 | Presentation of WDV Genius, a PC based plot manager with automatic detection of plot language |
| 1996 | WDV ARTIST 8400 is presented. It is the first large-format LED plotter with an "embedded graphic controller" made by WDV |
| 1997/I | WDV becomes Contex OEM-Partner |
| 1997/II | WDV presents two complete digital reprographic systems for copying, plotting, scanning and archiving |
| 1998 | Introduction of an archiving and document management system with repro-management |
| 1999/I | WDV takes over customer base of CalComp Inc. for Europe including maintenance contracts, spare part depot and service |
| 1999/II | Presentation of the new WDV ARTIST 8600 large-format LED plotter and the new WDV ReproCENTER 8640 with online folding system to the market. First plot system in the market with a fully integrated A3/A4 laser printe |
| 1999/III | softplot GmbH is established as a subsidiary of WDV GmbH. Its focus is to be the development of software solutions for raster processing, plot management, converters, and archiving programs |
| 2000 | WDV becomes business partner for HP Designjet plotters; WDV starts offering total service and maintenance for the HP plotter at all service locations |
| 2001 | Introduction of the new WDV ARTIST 8200, the lowest-price large-format LED plotter in the market with 400 dpi resolution |
| 2002 | WDV ARTIST 8600 XXL – a LED plotter for printing documents up to 60m length – is introduced. First used by AIRBUS to produce long plots for the development of Airbus A 380 |
| 2003/I | Establishment of WDV Services with focus on professional scan, copy, plot, archiving and fine art printing services |
| 2003/II | WDV becomes Distributor for Contex in Germany |
| 2004 | WDV presents the newly developed, powerful embedded PC-Controller "PLOTMASTER" with Windows CE platform |
| 2006 | WDV becomes KIP Partner |
| 2007 | Introduction of the high-performance LED-Plotter WDV ARTIST 9600 with web based plot management |
| 2008 | WDV presents the new 3D colour printer ZPrinter 650 at EUROMOLD 2008 |
| 2009 | Introduction of flexible multi-function scan and copy solutions: WDV 9650 SD ReproCenter and WDV 9650 HD ReproCenter |
| 2010 | WDV plotters with new stamping function for printouts for easy identification of users |
| 2011 | WDV drivers now Microsoft certified and compatible with Windows7 |
| 2012 | WDV printers/plotters with new "long plot" option of PDF and PostScript files with more than 30m length |
| 2013 | Co-operation with the US company Fabrisonic LLC, 3D Metal Printer |
| 2014 | WDV
expands the product portfolio as official KIP distributor
| 2015 | WDV
becomes HP Page Wide XL Certified Gold Partner |
2016 | WDV
expands 3D printers portfolio (FDM/FFF technology) |