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1440
Printing press
goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press, which started the Printing Revolution. Modelled on the design of existing screw presses, a single Renaissance movable-type printing press could produce up to 3,600 pages per workday, compared to forty by hand-printing and a few by hand-copying. -
1550
Movable typepress
The printing revolution began when Johannes Gutenberg invented the moveable type press and is regarded as the most important event of the modern period. The standard process involved a hard metal punch with letters engraved back to front that was hammered into a softer copper bar, creating a matrix. It is placed into a mold and filled with molten-type metal. The resulting peice of type is then removed from the mold. -
The typewriter
Pellegrino Turriand his design in 1808, many early typewriters were developed to enable the blind to write. -
Rotary Printing press
Rotary drum printing was invented by Richard March Hoe. It is a printing press in which the impressions are curved around a cylinder so that the printing can be done on long continuous rolls of paper, cardboard, plastic, or a large number of other substrates -
First high-speed Printer
he first high speed printer was invented by Remington-Rand for the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC). The printer was based on the electrophotography dry printing process called Xerox. -
Daisy Wheelprinter
The daisy wheel printer was invented by David S. Lee at Diablo Data Systems. The system is an interchangeable metal or plastic "daisy wheel" holding an entire character set as raised characters moulded on each "petal". A motor rotates the wheel to position the required character between the hammer and the ribbon. A hammer drives the character type on to the ribbon and paper to print the character on the paper. -
Dot Matrix Printer
The LA30 was a 30 character/second dot matrix printer introduced in 1970 by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts. It printed 80 columns of uppercase-only 5x7 dot matrix characters across a unique-sized paper. Dot matrix impact printers were generally considered the best combination of expense and versatility, and until the 1990s they were by far the most common form of printer used with personal computers. -
Dot Matrix Printer
The LA30 was a 30 character/second dot matrix printer introduced in 1970 by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts. It printed 80 columns of uppercase-only 5x7 dot matrix characters across a unique-sized paper. Dot matrix impact printers were generally considered the best combination of expense and versatility, and until the 1990s they were by far the most common form of printer used with personal computers. -
IBM 2800
The printing revolution began when Johannes Gutenberg invented the moveable type press and is regarded as the most important event of the modern period. The standard process involved a hard metal punch with letters engraved back to front that was hammered into a softer copper bar, creating a matrix. It is placed into a mold and filled with molten-type metal. The resulting peice of type is then removed from the mold. -
Hp dekjet
The HP DeskJet was the first mass-market inkjet printer. The DeskJet offered continuous plain-paper printing and higher print quality than its inkjet predecessors and was priced at about $1,000. -
Xerox ColorQube - Solid Ink
Solid ink is a technology was originally created by Tektronix in 1986 and bought over by Xerox in 2000.
Solid ink technology utilizes solid ink sticks in lieu of the fluid ink or toner powder usually used in printers. After the ink stick is loaded into the printing device, it is melted and used to produce images on paper. Xerox claims that solid ink printing produces more vibrant colors than other methods, is easier to use, can print on a wide range of media & is more environmentally friendly.
