Idea Institute is founded to provide translations in various world languages. The company begins receiving orders for translation of export catalogues, advertisements, product manuals, and other materials from major Japanese export-oriented companies. Services are offered in twenty languages.
1975
Design, printing production, and printing services are launched. Later, Idea begins receiving regular orders from governmental corporations. Its lines of business expand.
1979
Idea becomes one of the translation industry’s early adopters of US-manufactured alphanumeric computerized typesetters. Productivity increases significantly.
Various kinds of DTP software and large numbers of computers for system building are introduced, as orders from the government and governmental corporations grow.
1996
Translation software is introduced. The workflow from translation to DTP becomes significantly more efficient.
