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Printmaking has evolved significantly over time, starting with woodblock printing in ancient China and continuing to modern digital printing technologies. Key developments included movable type printing in Korea and China, Johannes Gutenberg's printing press in Europe, innovations that increased printing speed and efficiency like the rotary press, and the advent of digital printing technologies like laser and inkjet printing, which enabled wireless and mobile printing. Modern 3D printing has its roots in stereolithography developed in the 1980s. Overall, printmaking has advanced from manual woodblock carving to highly automated digital processes.

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Printmaking

Printmaking has evolved significantly over time, starting with woodblock printing in ancient China and continuing to modern digital printing technologies. Key developments included movable type printing in Korea and China, Johannes Gutenberg's printing press in Europe, innovations that increased printing speed and efficiency like the rotary press, and the advent of digital printing technologies like laser and inkjet printing, which enabled wireless and mobile printing. Modern 3D printing has its roots in stereolithography developed in the 1980s. Overall, printmaking has advanced from manual woodblock carving to highly automated digital processes.

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Historical Evolution of

Print Making
|Rhomina May Acosta |Rose Rafael| BSEd 4C|
What is Print Making?
• Printmaking is an artistic process based on the principle of transferring
images from a matrix onto another surface, most often paper or fabric.
•  Traditional printmaking techniques include woodcut, etching, engraving,
and lithography, while modern artists have expanded available techniques
to include screen printing.
PRE-INSDUSTRIAL PRINTING
AGE PRINTING 
 
Woodblock Printing (6th Century – Early
9th Century)
• The Tang Dynasty ruled China during this period. You can call this dynasty the
trailblazer of the modern-day printing industry. Woodblock printing was the major
innovation of this empire. In this kind of printing, people would engrave wooden blocks,
ink them and then press them on a sheet of paper to print images, texts or patterns.
• The Oldest known printed book is "Diamond Sutra".

   
Cast Metal Movable Type Printing (12th
Century)
• Korea invented cast metal movable type printing. They printed the popular
Korean classic Yi Munsun Chip using this method of printing. This
Korean classic was an 8-volume collection of works by Yi Munsun, a
great scholar, poet and statesman during the Koryo Dynasty of Korea.
1300
• Bi Shen, the Chinese inventor developed the wooden movable clay type
printing back in 1041 AD. But Chinese soon abandoned this technology
shortly after he invented it. The drawback was that the clay blocks would
break easily.
Metal Movable Type Printing and Gutenberg
Printing Press (14th Century)
• Printing hadn’t witnessed any big revolution until 1440 when Johannes
Gutenberg. During his political exile away from Mainz, he started
experimenting with printing using metal types. He returned to Mainz in
1450 and introduced a commercial printing machine – Gutenberg Press.
• As Gutenberg’s printing press proved to be a more efficient and less costly
form of printing, the beginning of the modern era of printing had begun.
Pre-Industrial Age Printing (15th Century – Early
18th Century)
• 1550 – England introduced its first ever wallpaper.
• 1575 – North America established its first ever paper mill in Mexico in the present-day North
America.
• 1611 – England published the English version of the Bible (translated from the original Hebrew and
Greek languages) under King James I. Later, it became popular as the King James Bible.
• 1725 – William Ged, a Scottish goldsmith, invented stereotyping.
• 1800 – Lord Charles Stanhope, a British diplomat, and scientist, invented the cast iron printing
press.
• 1819 – Napier invented the rotary printing press.
• 1829 – Louis Braille, a French educator, and Catholic priest, invented embossed printing for
the visually impaired.
Industrial Age Printing
(Mid 18th Century – Mid 19th Century)
Major Milestone during the Industrial age printing

• 1846 – Richard March Hoe, an inventor from New York, US, developed an
improved version of the Napier’s rotary printing press. 

• 1865 – Though Hoe’s printing press was a great innovation, its fragility was
a drawback. The other major drawback was manual feeding of the paper.
William Bullock, an American inventor tweaked the design to make it
efficient and better.

• 1875 – The modern-day offset printing dates back to this year. Robert
Barclay, a Scottish writer, and inventor developed the first-ever offset
lithography printing press.
1886 – A German inventor Ottmar Mergenthaler invented the
Linotype machine, the first-ever typesetting machine. This became the first
linotype machine to publish the ‘New York Tribune’, the then popular daily
newspaper of New York.
• 1870 – Wood pulp became a great raw material for mass paper
production.

• 1907 – Cašpar Hermann, a US immigrant from Germany, developed the


first web offset printing press.

• 1938 – Chester Carlson, an American physicist, and inventor became


the father of modern-day photocopying. It was a dry printing process
named electrophotography (which people commonly call ‘Xerox’
today).
Pre-Digital Age Printing / Early Age Digital Printing
(Laser Printing)
 (Mid 19th Century – Late 19th Century)
• 1954 – Xerox introduced Copyflo, the first automatic Xerographic printer.
• 1968 – Epson (formerly Seiko Group), a Japanese electronics manufacturing company
entered the printer-manufacturing business. It launched EP-101, the world’s first mini-
printer. This invention led to the foundation of a leading computer printer manufacturing
company that we recognize as Epson today.
• 1969 – American physicist and inventor Gary Keith Starkweather made the
groundbreaking invention in the form of a laser printer while working in his research lab
in Xerox. This invention went on to lay the foundation of laser printing technology.
• 1971 – Brother Industries, Ltd. launched the world’s first high-speed dot-matrix printer.
• 1975 – Canon Inc. developed its first laser printer.
• 1981 – SATO made a ground-breaking invention in the form of a thermal transfer
barcode printer.
• 1984 – Hewlett Packard, a renowned American MNC headquartered in California, US
invented HP ThinkJet, the world’s first thermal inkjet printer. Later in the same year, HP
introduced HP LaserJet, the world’s most popular PC laser printer.
Modern Age Digital Printing 
(Late 19th Century – Till Date)
3D Printing had started during this period
• 1983 – Charles Hull invented Stereolithography, sowing the seeds of 3-D printing.
• 1985 – Canon Inc. introduced BJ 80, the world’s first inkjet printer to use Bubble Jet
technology.
• 1993 – Canon Inc. introduced Pixel Jet S, a full-colour photocopying machine.
• 1996 – 3D Systems introduced MultiJet 3D printers.
• 2002 – Kodak introduces LS633, the world’s first OLED display digital camera. It featured
the world’s first printer-camera combination. In the same year, HP introduced cutting-edge
wireless printing technology.
• 2002 – Kodak introduces LS633, the world’s first OLED display digital camera. It featured
the world’s first printer-camera combination. In the same year, HP introduced cutting-edge
wireless printing technology.
• 2009 – HP and BlackBerry formed an alliance that gave BlackBerry users across the world
to print emails and docs wirelessly.
• 2010 – HP introduced the world’s first web-connected home printer and launched the
mobile printing solution. Parallely, Apple Inc. also introduced AirPrint that eliminated the
need for printer-specific drivers.
• 2011 – Epson introduced receipt printers with wireless printing capability from any OS.
• 2013 – HP launched the new HP Officejet Pro X that Guinness World Records recognized
for the fastest time to print by an office color desktop printer.
• 2015– HP debuted HP Neverstop – the world’s first Toner Tank Laser Printer. This printer is
38% faster than the previous generations. With automatic ink sensor alerts, it alerts you
before the ink gets over.
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