Do you know your Printing History?

History of printing

No matter how digital we become, there will always be a place for printed items. Each breakthrough over the centuries has had some speculating the end of an era, when in fact it’s just evolving.

Here are some interesting dates!
• Woodblock printing (200)
• Movable type (1040)
• Printing press (1454)
• Etching (ca. 1500)
• Mezzotint (1642)
• Aquatint (1768)
• Lithography (1796)
• Chromolithography (1837)
• Rotary press (1843)
• Offset printing (1875)
• Hectograph (19th century)

• Hot metal typesetting (1886)
• Mimeograph (1890)
• Screen printing (1907)
• Spirit duplicator (1923)
• Dye-sublimation (1957)
• Phototypesetting (1960s)
• Dot matrix printer (1964)
• Laser printing (1969)
• Thermal printing (ca. 1972)
• Inkjet printing (1976)
• Stereolithography (1986)
• Digital press (1993)
• 3D printing (ca. 2003)

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