EVOLUTION OF

PRINTING

-Cassandra Cristina Piollo

VII-MARIE CURIE
WOODBLOCK (220 AD)
In woodblock printing, an image is carved in
reverse on a piece of wood (areas that will not be
printed are removed) leaving the image's outline
on the wood. The block is then inked and printed
on a substance like paper or fabric.
MOVABLE TYPE (1040 AD)
The first known movable type was accredited to
Chinese inventor Bi Sheng in 990–1051 AD during
the Song dynasty. Before Bi Sheng invented
movable type printing, characters are engraved
in one big block, which was very time consuming
and costly.
GUTENBERG PRINTING PRESS (1440)
Gutenberg made separate pieces of metal
type for each character to be printed. With
movable type, a printer could quickly make
many copies of a book. The same pieces of
type could be used again and again, to
print many different books.
Lithography (1796)
In the lithographic process, ink is applied to
a grease-treated image on the flat printing
surface; nonimage (blank) areas, which
hold moisture, repel the lithographic ink.
ROTARY PRESS (1843)
Rotary press, printing press that prints on
paper passing between a supporting
cylinder and a cylinder containing the
printing plates.
OFFSET PRINTING (1875)
Offset printing, also called offset lithography, or
litho-offset, in commercial printing, widely used
printing technique in which the inked image on a
printing plate is printed on a rubber cylinder and
then transferred (i.e., offset) to paper or other
material. The rubber cylinder gives great flexibility,
permitting printing on wood, cloth, metal, leather,
and rough paper.
SCREEN PRINTING (1910)
also known as serigraphy, is a method of creating an
image on paper, fabric or some other object by pressing
ink through a screen with areas blocked off by a stencil.
The technique is used both for making fine art prints and
for commercial applications, such as printing a company's
logo on coffee mugs or t-shirts.
Inkjet printers are a category of printer in which
printing is done with the help of inkjet technology.
The technology works by spraying ionized ink
directed by magnetic plates onto the paper, which
is fed through the printer. As inkjet printers are more
affordable than other types of printers, they are
commonly used as home and business printers.
Dye-sublimation printers allow you to print photo-lab-quality
pictures at home. As the price of these printers go down,
more and more digital-camera owners are choosing to take
advantage of this technology. In dye-sublimation printing,
colors are not laid down as individual dots, as is done in
inkjet printers. Individual dots can be distinguished at a
relatively close distance, making digital pictures look less
realistic.
DIGITAL PRINTING (1991)
Digital printing refers to methods of
printing from a digital-based image
directly to a variety of media.
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