A Brief History of Print

A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRINT Let's dispel the notion that printing is an ancient invention. In the greater scheme of things, the development of printing is surprisingly new- happening right smack in the latter half of recorded history. It's had history of only 1,800 or so years - about a hundred years after the first steam engine - the aeolipyle- was frst described and likely invented by Hero of Alexandria. the invention of the internet than they did to the building of the pyramids. These people were all bom well before printing was first done by woodblock in East Asia around 100 AD - likely in China or Korea, depending which source you believe. On the surface, printing seems simple enough. Anyone can track mud through a carpet for instance. It's possible that there's a record of earlier one-off printing but we've yet to uncover i The specific social and technological prerequisites for affordably printing iterature and images on paper (another thing that had to be developed!) did not come about until much later in our history. Printing is also younger than analog computers (the Antikythera mechanism) by 200 years, stringed musical instruments by 2,600 years, and the first pyramids of Egypt by around 2,700 years. To put this into perspective, that would mean that Julius Caesar(born 100 BC), Jesus Christibom est. 2-4 BC), and Confucius( born 551 BC) all lived chronologically closer in time to And what a fascinating history it is. Woodblock Printing TATI OT Materials used to create a woodblock are (from left to right) Mallet, Ink, Ink Knives, Carving tools, Whetstone, Baren & Brayer AD 705 & 751 Inksticks Evidence for the eariest Chinese inks, similar to modem inksticks, is around 256 BC n the end of the Waring States Period & produced from soot & animal glue. The Dharani Sutra Speedball RBLACK INDLA IN Found at Bulguksa, South Korea in 1966. Its Buddhist text was printed on a 8 cm x 630cm mulberry paper scrol in the early Korean Kingdom. 868 CE India Ink The India ink used in ancient hdia since at least the 4th century BC was caled masi, & was made of bumt bones, tar, pitch, & other substances. Papemaking Traditionaly been traced to China about AD 105, when Cai Lun, an official attached to the Imperial court during the Han Dynasty (202 BC- 220 AD), created a sheet of paper using mulbery & other bast fibres along with fishnets, old rags, and hemp waste. The Diamond Sutra The earliest dated printed book known is the "Diamond Sutra", printed in China in 868 CE. However, it is suspected that book printing may have occurred long before this date. Printing on Cloth Baterly The technique is found through East and Central Asia, and in the Byzantine world for cloth, and by AD 1000 examples of woodblock printing on paper appear in Islamic Egypt. Printing onto cloth had spread much earlier, & was common in Europe Binding is invented during AD1000 Hokusai's 'Great Wave off Kanagawa' Initially, woodblock printing in the early Edo period focused on popular texts such as ballads & stories with added illustrations. Eventually these illustrations became so popular that they developed into an art form of their own & were known as sumizuri-e (black-ink pictures). 有 仙 如 智 異 Tripitaka (late 10th century) complete Buddhist canon printed with blocks, which took between 1080 & 1102. These new coloured prints were called nishiki-e (brocade pictures) & they ushered in the golden age of ukiyo-e woodblock printing. Blockprinting goes to Europe in the 13th century The Chinese technique of blockprinting was transmitted to Europe," soon after paper became available in Europe. afag sanbanlimi rar rlaleheme-Don te mllm dr sid mirweronik Albrecht Pfister (c. 1420 – c. 1466) was one of the very first European printers to use movable type, following the invention by Johannes Gutenberg. Johannes Gutenberg 1395 – February 3, 1468 Is a German blacksmith, goldsmith, painter & publisher. He introduced printing to Europe & with his invention of mechanical movable type started the Printing Řevolution. Notable early works: Ink Ingredients Block-books 15th Century Chiaroscuro Woodcuts Ancient Rome Germany 1508 Iron Salts Ferrous Sulfate Tanin from Gallnuts Bibla pauperum- a Biblical picture-book, was the next most common title, & the great majority of block-books were popular devotional works. European woodcut prints with coloured blocks. Medieval Ages Iron Salts Hawthorn Branches Boiled Water & Wine Gutenberg Ink Сopper Lead Titanium Oil Sulphur Confucian Analects Japan 1598 Printed using a Korean moveable type printing press, at the order of Emperor Go-Yozei. This Chengshi Moyuan China 1606 Earliest dated book printed in 2 colors; a book on ink-cakes printed in 1606 & the technique reached its height in books on art published in the first half of the 17th century. document is the oldest work of Japanese moveable type printing extant today. Lord Stanhope Friedrich Koenig Koenig & Bauer sold two of their frst models to The Times in London in 1814, capable of 1,100 impressions per hour THE TIMES By 1800, Lord Stanhope had built a press completely from cast iron which reduced the force required by 90%, while doubling the size of the printed area. Patented in 1810, Koenig had designed a steam press "much like a hand press connected to a steam engine." The first production trial of this model Occurred in April 1811. Printing capacity Gutenberg Press Stanhope Press са. 1600 Koenig Press са. 1818 са. 1800 240 480 2,400 impressions per hour impressions per hour impressions per hour Rotary Printing Press The steam powered rotary printing press, invented in 1843 in the United States by Richard M. Hoe, allowed millions of copies of a page in a single day. Mass production of printed works flourished after the transition to rolled paper, as continuous feed allowed the presses to run at a much faster pace. 3. Main types of rotary presses; Offset Rotogravure Flexography The mass production of print flourished in 1843 By the late 1930s or early 1940s, printing presses had increased The Rise of Jobbing Press substantially in efficiency: a model by Platen Printing Press was capable of performing 2,500 to 3,000 impressions per hour Fritzman press room 1917 In the middle of the 19th century, there was a separate development of jobbing presses, small presses capable of printing small-format pieces such as billheads, letterheads, business cards, & envelopes. Join the brave throng that goes marching along During World War I the impact of the poster as a means of communication was greater than at any other time during history. Airborne Leaflet Propaganda Airbome leaflet propaganda is a formm of psychological warfare in which leaflets (flyers) are scattered in the air. 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