A Brief History of Printing

A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRINTING INTERESTING PRINTING FACTS Printing was first thought of and developed in China Printing is considered to be one of the four greatest Chinese inventions Johann Gutenburg developed European printing technology in 1440 The oldest known printed work by Chinese is a woodblock- printed Buddhist scripture of the Wu Zetian period (684-705 AD) is an indirect printing or offset process. The image is process. The Image is transferred, ot offset, from one cylinder to another, A printing plate bocee Ape urde n an indirect printing William Nuthead founded the first printing business in St. Mary's City in 1685 Offset printing is where an image is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket and then applied to the printing surface The first offset printing press was invented in 1903 by Ira Washington Rubel The Maryland Gazette was founded in 1727 and is the oldest, continuously published newspaper printed in the United States NEWS In 1995 APL Machinery Pvt. Ltd. started Manufacturing APL Screen Printing Machines. APL started making Screen Machinery Pvt. Ltd. Printing Machines, UV Curing (of coating by ultraviolet radiation) Systems and other products related to this Industry. LANDMARKS IN PRINTING TECHNOLOGY Woodblock printing (200) Movable type (1040) Printing press (1454) Aquatint (1768) Mezzotint (1642) Etching (ca. 1500) Lithography (1796) Chromolithography (1837) Rotary press (1843) Transfer Tablet Hot metal typesetting (1886) Offset printing (1875) Hectograph (1869) Mimeograph (1890) Screen printing (1907) Spirit duplicator (1923) LIS t o. (pplier Dot matrix printer (1964) Phototypesetting (1960s) Dye-sublimation (1957) Laser printing (1969) Thermal printing (ca. 1972) Inkjet printing (1976) Digital press (1993) 3D printing (1984) Co$t of Printing Paper and ink are the unavoidable costs of any industry. unless it completely depends on a paper free digital technology. The ink of Inkjet printer costs much more for a milliliter of ink i.e. 51 p compared to the most expensive Dom Perignon champagne that costs just 15 p, and hence is considered extravagant. Painful Printing Printing is really a tough financial burden to meet for the small and medium business industries. The costs involved include Cost of the printing equipment Cost of the stationery Paper jamming losses Printer ink wastes Frequent cartridge replacements Print for Marketing Usage of the printers for the various purpose of the industry is as follows Visiting & Business Cards 78% Yellow Pages 54% Brochures 50% Fliers 44% Direct Mailers 44% Newspaper Advertisements 42% Out of store signs/Banners/posters 30% Coupons 28% Vehicle Magnets 23% Statistics 45 Print Industry is as big as $640 Billion and has an inflow Trillion Pages are printed in a year 96% Of the news read from a physical printed paper of $3.8 Trillion from the allied services U.S print industry consistently grew for every quarter in 2010 & 2011 24% 28 share printed articles 23% save printed articles Million business cards are printed in a day in the US 70% Of the ad's and mails The growth of printing business that are direct are worldwide is from the recyded 6.8% annually paper 1 million printers (which include both commercial and consumer) are manufactured daily 30% of the print orders are being ordered online via the website of the service provider APL The infographic has been created by APL Machinery Machinery Pvt. Ltd. For More Details Visit : www.aplmachinery.com