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  2. History of printing - Wikipedia

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    The history of printing starts as early as 3000 BCE, when the proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations used cylinder seals to certify documents written in clay tablets. Other early forms include block seals, hammered coinage, pottery imprints, and cloth printing. Initially a method of printing patterns on cloth such as silk, woodblock printing ...

  3. Johannes Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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    Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg[a] (c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [2] enabled a much faster rate of printing. The printing press later spread across ...

  4. Printing - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The earliest known form of printing evolved from ink rubbings made on paper or cloth from texts on ...

  5. History of writing - Wikipedia

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    The history of writing traces the development of writing systems [ 1 ] and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures various social and psychological consequences associated with literacy and literary culture. With each historical invention of writing, true writing systems were preceded ...

  6. Print culture - Wikipedia

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    Print culture encompasses many stages as it has evolved in response to technological advances. Print culture can first be studied from the period of time involving the gradual movement from oration to script as it is the basis for print culture. As the printing became commonplace, script became insufficient and printed documents were mass ...

  7. McLoughlin Brothers - Wikipedia

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    McLoughlin Bros., Inc. was a New York manufacturing company active between 1858 [2] and 1920. As a publisher itself, the company was a pioneer in color printing technologies in children's books. [3] The company specialized in retellings or bowdlerizations of classic stories for children. McLoughlin Bros. also produced board games, puzzles, and ...

  8. Letterpress printing - Wikipedia

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    Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing for producing many copies by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against individual sheets of paper or a continuous roll of paper. [1] A worker composes and locks movable type into the "bed" or "chase" of a press, inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer the ink ...

  9. Printmaking - Wikipedia

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    Rembrandt, Self-portrait, etching, c. 1630. Francisco Goya, There is No One To Help Them, Disasters of War series, aquatint c. 1810. Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces.

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