Graphic Communications Erin Jarboe

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  • Period: Jan 1, 1000 to

    Graphic Communications

  • Jan 1, 1041

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    A chinese Alchemist, Pi-Sheng, develops movable type by carving individual characters in clay blocks that can be arranged to produce acomplete text. By 1400, metal type is being used in Korea.
  • Jan 1, 1105

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    A chinese Court official produces the first sheets of paper. Pilgrims are soon using paper to copy prayers carved on temple pillars by applying ink to the carving and then pressing a peice of paper against it.
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    Papermaking begins in Europe, having slowly traveled westward from China through the Muslim World, by caravan amd cpmquest, to Muslim controlled Spain.
  • Jan 11, 1327

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    At King Tut's grave, priests stamp hieroglyphics on a clay tablet.
  • Jan 1, 1350

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    Europeans begin using carved woodblocks to print images and lage capital letters on paper but still rely on copyist to fill each page with written text.
  • Jan 1, 1450

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    Johannes Gutenburg, converts a wine press into the first printing press and develops his own movable metal type.

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    Improved Graphics software combines typesetting, layout, imaging, and color separation into desktop publishing.

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    Alois Senefelder of Munich develops Lithography. First used primarily to print images.

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    Freidrich Koenig devlops a rotary press.

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    The british scientist Fox Talbot captures the image of a leaf on a photosensative metal plate covered with a fine gauze, resulting in a screened image.

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    William Bullock develops the web press.

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    Ottmar Mergenthaler invents the linotype machine.

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    IRa Rubel develops offset printing, in which a rubber covered cylinder transfers ink from the plate to the paper.

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    Phototypesetting is introduced.

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    GRaphic Communications enters the digital Ear with electronic typesetting.Image scanners began to replace screen photography.

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    Improved graphics software combines typesetting, layout, imaging, and color seperation into desktop publishing.

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    Digital technology begins to replace printing plates as lasers translate page files into a pettern of electrical charges.