THE PRINTHistory of printing.

Saliha AbubakrSunesh parayilAmeer Salman OM

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We take for granted newspapers, magazines, books, posters, and other

printed material.

None of the printed items we enjoy today would be around without a number of persons in the history !

Printing was developed based on early principles of printing, and it has undergone many modifications over the years to meet the needs of people in different eras.

Woodblock printing was a technique which was used in the Mesopotamian civilization before 3000 BC.

Invention of paper in the second century AD by China wasthe first major milestone in the history ofprinting press

The prime name associated with the history of printing press is

Johann Gutenberg

The inventor of the Printing Pressin 1450

He created individual pieces of type, which involve creating a master copy of each letter, devising the moulds in which multiple versions can be cast, and developing a suitable alloy (type metal) in which to cast them.

- Movable type printing press.

Dry point engravings and Handwritten form of printing was invented in the year 1465

By the 16th century, the printing press had been in existence for around 50 years. It had spread throughout Europe and more than 10 million copies of nearly 3500 works had already been printed.

During the first decade of 16th Century, Aldus Manutius came up with a printer that gave smaller, more portable books. He is also the first to use Italic type.

In 1507 Lucas Cranach invented the chiaroscuro woodcut, a technique in which drawings are reproduced using two or more blocks printed in different colors.

It is Jakob Christoph Le Blon - German painter and engraver founded the basic form of CMYK printing.

He used the mezzotint method to engrave three metal plates for printing. Here each plate is inked with a different color, using Red, yellow and blue. Later on he adds a fourth plate, bearing black lines

American inventor Richard March Hoe builds the first Lithographic Rotary printing press.

Here a press in which the type is placed on a revolving cylinder instead of a flatbeds. This speeds up the printing process dramatically.

the invention of the Linotype composing machine is a major step forward in the process of printing. With this typesetter an operator can enter text using a 90-character contained keyboard. The machine outputs the text as slugs having lines of metal type.

The 21st century have more to talk about digital revolution rather than print technology except some few innovations like CTP printing with plates and CMYK coloring by the help of digital technology.

Later , technology has made several changes in PRINTING TECHNOLOGYHere is a small timeline of the further technological progress of print…..

1906 •Photostat and Rectigraph

1938 •Xerography

1951 •Inkjet printing1968 •Dot matrix printing

1969 •Laser printing

1972 •Thermal printing1984 •3D printing

1993 •Digital printing

The printing press has influenced psychology in several major ways.

Before the printing press, people were apt to believe that the text they were reading was true because only the most noteworthy information was recorded.

That’s all about the briefhistory of printing and its contributions to the

world….Sources; The Crombergers of Seville : the history of

printing and merchant dynasty by Griffin CliveOxford university pressThe printing press as a agent of changeby Eisenstein Elizabeth L Cambridge university press

Beginning to read : thinking and learning about print by Adams Marilyn Jager MIT press

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