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Jan 1, 1241
Koreans print books using movable type
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Jan 1, 1300
The first use of wooden type in China
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Jan 1, 1309
Europeans first make paper
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Jan 1, 1338
First papermill opens in France
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Jan 1, 1390
First papermill opens in Germany
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Jan 1, 1392
Foundries that can produce bronze type are opened in Korea.
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Jan 1, 1423
In Europe block printing is used to print books.
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Jan 1, 1452
In Europe, metal plates are first used in printing. Gutenberg begins printing the Bible which he finishes in 1456.
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Jan 1, 1457
First color printing by Fust and Schoeffer.
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Jan 1, 1465
Drypoint engravings invented by Germans.
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Jan 1, 1476
William Caxton begins using a Gutenberg printing press in England.
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Jan 1, 1477
Intaglio is first used for book illustration for a Flemish book called Il Monte Sancto di Dio.
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Jan 1, 1495
First papermill opened in England.
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Jan 1, 1501
Italic type first used.
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Jan 1, 1550
Wallpaper introduced in Europe
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First weekly newspaper published in Antwerp.
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King James Bible published.
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Mezzotint invented in Germany
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First papermill opened in the American colonies
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Multi-colored engraving invented by German Jakob Le Blon. The first English language daily newspaper is published called the Daily Courant.
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language daily newspaper is published called the Daily Courant.
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In Scotland stereotyping invented by William Ged
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Iron printing presses invented.
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Rotary printing press invented by Napier
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Embossed printing invented by Louis Braille
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Type-composing machine invented
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Electrotyping invented
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Cylinder press invented by Richard Hoe
Cylinder press can print 8,000 sheets an hour. date n.d. -
Rotary web-fed letterpress invented by William Bullock.
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Web offset press can print on both sides of paper at once.
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Paper is now mass-manufactured from wood pulp.
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Photogravure printing invented by Karl Klic.
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Linotype composing machineinvented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.
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Mimeograph machine introduced.
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Printing presses can now print and fold 90,000 4-page papers an hour. Diazotype invented (print photographs on fabric).
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4-color rotary press invented.
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Offset lithography becomes common. The first comic book is published.
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Commercial silk screening invented.
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Chester Carlson invented a dry printing process called electrophotography commonly called a Xerox
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Phototypesetting made practical
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the first high-speed printer was developed by Remington-Rand for use on the Univac computer
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The original laser printer called EARS was developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
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the inkjet printer was invented
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the very first IBM 3800 was installed in the central accounting office at F. W. Woolworth’s North American data center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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the first xerographic laser printer product, was released
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the inkjet to become a home consumer item with Hewlett-Parkard's release of the DeskJet inkjet printer, priced at a whopping $1000.
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Hewlett-Packard released the popular LaserJet 4, the first 600 by 600 dots per inch resolution laser printer
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T’ang Dynasty - the first printing is done in China using ink on carved wooden blocks begins to make multiple transfers of an image to paper.
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The Diamond Sutra is printed.