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  2. History of printing - Wikipedia

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    Three-dimensional printing is a method of converting a virtual 3D model into a physical object. 3D printing is a category of rapid prototyping technology. 3D printers typically work by 'printing' successive layers on top of the previous to build up a three dimensional object. 3D printers are generally faster, more affordable and easier to use ...

  3. Screen printing - Wikipedia

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    Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil.A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen in a "flood stroke" to fill the open mesh apertures with ink, and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact.

  4. Timeline of 20th century printmaking in America - Wikipedia

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    1959 – George Lockwood established the Impressions Workshop in Boston, with a focus on lithography and intaglio printing, later adding screen printing. [ 53 ] 1959 - June Wayne , founder of Tamarind Lithography Workshop (1960), in her funding proposal to the Ford Foundation to launch Tamarind, stated that the purpose of her project was to ...

  5. List of printmakers - Wikipedia

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    Johann Theodor de Bry En (later in Germany, also publisher); Jan Van Calcar Wo; Hieronymus Cock En, Et, Publisher; Hans Collaert En, son of Adriaen; Cornelis Cort En; Philippe Galle En, Publisher, and his heirs, including Adriaen Collaert.

  6. Printmaking - Wikipedia

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    The essential tools required are a squeegee, a mesh fabric, a frame, and a stencil. Unlike many other printmaking processes, a printing press is not required, as screen printing is essentially stencil printing. Screen printing may be adapted to printing on a variety of materials, from paper, cloth, and canvas to rubber, glass, and metal.

  7. Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890) - Wikipedia

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    1843 Rotary printing press. A rotary printing press is a printing press in which the images to be printed are curved around a cylinder. In 1843, Richard Hoe invented a revolution in printing by rolling a cylinder over stationary plates of inked type and using the cylinder to make an impression on paper. This eliminated the need for making ...

  8. Early American publishers and printers - Wikipedia

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    Cotton Mather was a Puritan minister in New England and a prolific author of books and pamphlets and is considered one of the most important intellectual figures in colonial America. Mather made free use of the presses in the New England colonies, sometimes in an effort to counter the attacks made on Puritans by George Keith and others. Between ...

  9. House of the First Print Shop in the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The printer Juan Pablos oversaw the printing of at least 35 books at this print shop between 1539, the date of the first book printed in the Americas, and his death in 1560. [2] The house was originally constructed by Gerónimo de Aguilar in 1524 and is located on the outer edge of what was the sacred precinct of the Templo Mayor prior to the ...