PRINTING TIME LINE
Thermal Printer - 1972
Woodblock Printing -200
Digital Press - 1993
Dye Sublimation - 1957
Pad Printing - 1960's
Intaglio - 1430's
Offset Press - 1903
Mimeograph - 1876
Rotary Press - 1843
Lithography - 1796
This is a type of printing used for text, images
and patterns which originated from China. This method was used a lot for printing onto cloth. This was adapted more by Western Asia and is still used alot there today.
Intaglio printing is a type of print making
etching which is where you engrave into a plate. This was originated in Germany where a lot of intaglio based methods were also originated from.
This is a printing technique which works by having an inked image which is transfered from a plate to a rubber blanket and then on to the printing surface. This was invented by Ira Washington Rubel from New Jersey.
This is a type of printing which can transfer a 2-D image into 3-D. Its used for printing on otherwise impossible products in industries such as medical, apparel and electronic objects.
This is a type of printing which includes using
a stone or metal plate with a completely smooth surface. This used to print text or an image onto a suitable material. It was invented by a German Alois Senefleder.
The printing press is used for printing images onto different materials such as cardboard, parer and plastic. It works by having the image around a roller which when turned presses it on to the material. This was invented by Richard March Hoe.
This is a stencil duplicator which is a type of printing press which works by forcing ink through the stencil on paper. This was invented by Thomas Edison. This printing method was used a lot for printing news letters or for posters that were advertising events.
This is a computer printer which uses heat to transfer dye onto materials such as paper or plastic. Printer used for dye sublimation are normally used for printing out photographic images.
Digital Printing is a method of printing from a digital based image. This can be used for desktop publishing, laser and inkjet. Its a more expensive method of printing compared to other pringint methods like Offset printing.
This is a digital printing process which produces a printed image by heating thermochromic paper or thermal paper. Thermal printing is the only known for being the only form of non-embossing printing which involves no ink.
Inkjet Printer - 1976
Screen Printing - 1907
Movable Type - 1040
Laser Printer - 1969
Photocopier - 1960's
Hot Metal Typesetting - 1886
Flexography - 1873
Printing Press - 1454
Chromolithography - 1837
This type of printing is mainly used for text. This was originated from China. This was a good printing method as you were able to change letters around. This led to the creation Jikji the oldest movable metal print book.
This is a type of printing which involves injecting molten type metal into a mold which has the shape of one or more glyphs. This was invented somewhere in Europe.
This is digital printing process which rapidly produces high quality texts and graphics onto plain paper. This was invented by Gary Starkweather who had improved print working by 1971.
This is the same proccess as Lithography only with
colour insted of just black and white. This was invented by the same person Alois Senefelder.
This is the Jikiki.
This is used to make paper copy prints of documents and images. It is a quick and cheap method of printing. This was invented by James Watt. It was a huge success and is one of the most common printing methods still used today.
This is a type of computer printing which allows you to print a digital image on to paper. This is the most commonly used printing method.
Screen printing is a stencil method of printing which involves having woven mesh which has parts taken out which is where the ink would go through on to the surface. You can make multiple prints of one stencil. Roy Beck, Charles Peter and Edward Owens studied this in 1907 in which they revolutionized screen printing by introducing image printing.
The printing press is used for putting
ink on to materials evenly such as cloth or
paper. This was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by a German called Johannes Gutenberg.
Flexography is a type of printing which allows you to print letters on to almost any material. It was invented in Liverpool, England by Bibby Baron and Sons. Its used a lot for printing on to food packaging.