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3200 BCE
The discovery of clay tablets
Egyptian and Mesopotamian people moved to more fertile land, in which led to the creation of writing.
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The Chinese produce the first sheets of paper
A government official named Ts’ai Lun made paper by mixing finely chopped mulberry bark and hemp rags with water, mashing it flat, then leaving it to dry out in the sun.
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200
Carved woodblocks used to print images and large capitals on paper.
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1045
Movable type with individual characters
Chinese Inventor Bi Sheng had carved individual characters on clay.After the block had been hardened by fire, the type became durable and could be used anytime and anywhere. The movable type pieces could be glued to an iron plate and easily detached from the plate. http://k.sina.com.cn/article_6385979043_17ca24ea300100788h.html -
1276
Papermaking begins in Europe
It took about 400 years for paper to make it to europe, and it began to spread across the continent.
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1453
Johannes Gutenberg and the first printing press
Johannes, a german inventor, created to printing press, and it basically made the literacy rate a major factor in Europe.
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J.C. LeBlond, a painter, patents a color printing process
Jacob Christoph, a german painter, made use of severald colored metal slates to put color on newspapers and books.
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Alois Senefelder and the invention of lithography. The process of oil and water do not mix.
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Friedrich Koenig develops a rotary press
Friedrich, a man born in the ocuntryside of Germany, invented to rotating press to improve printing. By using a large rotating wheel, it could power a press, which was much more efficient than all hand.
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The First “screened” photosensitive metal plate
The first photosensitive metal plate, which was "screened" was made in the mid 1800's by William Henry Fox Talbot.
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William Bullock (United States) develops the web press
Bullock made it to so you can make rolls of paper to be automatically be fed into a press, rather than making it by hand.
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Ira Rubel develops offset printing
Offset printing is basically when an ink image is place don a rubber cylinder, then put onto a paper multiple times over.
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Linotype machine invented
Ottmar Mergenthaler created the linotype machine, where yo could quickly set complete lines of type in printing presses.
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Piet Mondrian, the father of graphic design (the use of grids)
Piet Mondrain founded the organization called "De Stijl," which used his idea of grids and functions to create art. His findings are sill used today.
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Graphic communications enters the computer age with digital graphics
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Phototypesetting is introduced
Two inventors, Rene Alphonse Higonnet and Louis Marius Moyroud, created the first phototypesetter in the mid 1900's. Basically, it allowed someone to use a strobe light and a series of optics to project character(letters) from a spinning disk onto paper.
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Sans-Serif typeface Helvetica
In 1957, Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann created a font called Sans Serif which didn't have serif in it, so it was appreciated by many because of its shorter line variations.
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Steve Jobs and the Apple Computer
In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created the Apple I, which made enough money to invest into the Apple II, which started the Apple Company.
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Creative software Adobe is created
Adobe was founded by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in the late 1900's. They made their way into the printing business, and soon, the software industry.
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Digital technology replacing printing plates
With digital technology at our fingertips, printing plates back then were now useless and completely outdated.
https://www.darkhorse.com.au/blog/2018/01/08/whats-difference-digital-offset-printing/
