Evolution of Print Timeline
Dot Matrix Printer (1968)
Dye-sublimation Printer (1957)
3D printing (1984)
Woodblock Printing (200 C.E.)
Lithography (1796)
- printing part goes back and forth on the page, leaving ink in patterns.
- Major step towards our "modern" printers.
- Used heat to transfer dye to plastic cards, printer paper, and poster paper.
- Helped the development of photo printing and ID cards.
- Uses chemicals to print images onto smooth surfaces.
- Was a new way to print complex pictures onto more than just paper.
- Led to color printing.
- Prints layers on top of layers to build up a three dimensional object.
- faster, more affordable, and easier to use.
- Opens up to a whole new type of printing and building.
- most used method of printing books, images, and other texts, until the 19th century (In East Asia).
- One of the first ways to print text.
Book: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Influenced the opinions of many people and opened peoples eyes to how horrible slavery really was.
Advertisement: McDonalds
Document: Mayflower Compact
EVERYONE knows McDonalds. It has shaped the way we look at fast food.
Established the first basis in the New World for written laws. Showed we could survive on our own.
Forms
- http://www.greatamericandocuments.com/
- http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/most-influential/top-5-most-influential-ad-campaigns/5/
- http://www.wikipedia.org/
Propaganda: Uncle Sam
Photograph: Migrant Mother
Persuaded many men to go and fight for their country. One of the most well known pieces of American Propaganda.
"Portrayed the strength of American womanhood during the Great Depression."
Showed the struggles people went through. Very well known.
Printing Press (1377)
Laser printer (1969)
Photostat Machine (early 1900s)
Photocopier (1960s)
Digital Press (modern day printer) (1993)
- Used to copy and make blueprints.
- Helped the growth of architecture and engineering.
- quickest, easiest, cheapest.
- Most effective and best quality.
- Makes printing many copies really simple.
- became a multibillion-dollar business for the company Xerox.
- Still in use today.
- Popularized desktop publishing
- Used to make quick copies of other texts.
- Made copying more effective.
- Used to evenly print ink onto paper and cloth.
- "The most influential events in human history."
- Led to the development o f many other forms of print.