The document summarizes the history of printing from early woodblock printing techniques in Mesopotamia before 3000 BC, to the invention of movable type printing by Johannes Gutenberg in 1450, to modern digital printing innovations. Key developments discussed include the invention of paper in China in the 2nd century AD, Gutenberg's printing press using movable metal type, advances that increased portability and speed of printing presses in the 15th-16th centuries, and modern technologies like photostat, xerography, inkjet printing, and digital printing. The printing press spread ideas rapidly and influenced how people evaluated information.

1. History of printing.
Saliha Abubakr
Sunesh parayil
Ameer Salman OM
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2. We take for granted newspapers,
magazines, books, posters, and other
printed material.

3. None of the
printed items
we enjoy today
would be
around without
a number of
persons in the
history !

4. Printing was
developed based on
early principles of
printing, and it has
undergone many
modifications over the
years to meet the
needs of people in
different eras.

5. Woodblock printing was a
technique which was used in the
Mesopotamian civilization before
3000 BC.

6. Invention
of paper in the
second century AD
by China was
the first major
milestone in the
history of
printing press

7. The prime name associated with the
history of printing press is
Johann
Gutenberg
The inventor of the Printing Press
in 1450

8. He created individual pieces of
type, which involve creating a
master copy of each letter,
devising the moulds in which
multiple versions can be cast,
and developing a suitable alloy
(type metal) in which to cast
them.
- Movable type printing press.

9. Dry point
engravings
and
Handwritte
n form of
printing
was
invented in
the year
1465

10. By the 16th century, the
printing press had been in
existence for around 50 years.
It had spread throughout
Europe and more than 10
million copies of nearly 3500
works had already been
printed.

11. During the first decade of 16th Century,
Aldus Manutius came up with a printer
that gave smaller, more portable books. He is
also the first to use Italic type.
In 1507 Lucas Cranach
invented the chiaroscuro woodcut, a
technique in which drawings are
reproduced using two or more blocks
printed in different colors.

12. It is Jakob Christoph Le Blon - German
painter and engraver founded the basic
form of CMYKprinting.
He used the mezzotint method to
engrave three metal plates for printing.
Here each plate is inked with a different
color, using Red, yellow and blue. Later on
he adds a fourth plate, bearing black lines

13. American inventor Richard
March Hoe builds the first
Lithographic Rotary printing
press.
Here a press in which the type is placed
on a revolving cylinder instead of a
flatbeds. This speeds up the printing
process dramatically.

14. the invention of the Linotype
composing machine is a major step
forward in the process of printing.
With this typesetter an operator can
enter text using a 90-character
contained keyboard.
The machine outputs the text as
slugs having lines of metal type.

15. The 21st century
have more to talk about
digital revolution rather
than print technology
except some few
innovations like CTP
printing with plates and
CMYK coloring by the
help of digital technology.

16. Later , technology has made several changes in PRINTING
TECHNOLOGY
Here is a small timeline of the further technological progress of
print…..

17. 1906 • Photostat and Rectigraph
1938 • Xerography
1951 • Inkjet printing
1968 •Dot matrix printing
1969 •Laser printing
1972 •Thermal printing
1984 •3D printing
1993 •Digital printing

18. The printing press has influenced
psychology in several major ways.
Before the printing press,
people were apt to believe
that the text they were
reading was true because
only the most noteworthy
information was
recorded.

19. That’s all about the brief
history of printing and
itscontributions to the
world….
Sources;
The Crombergers of Seville : the history of
printing and merchant dynasty by Griffin Clive
Oxford university press
The printing press as a agent of change
by Eisenstein Elizabeth L
Cambridge university press
Beginning to read : thinking and learning
about print
by Adams Marilyn Jager
MIT press

20. Thank
You….