Question

mention some of the innovation that have improved the printing technology after seventeenth century.

Answer 1

Some important innovations in the field of printing press are as follows:

• 1702- Multi-colored engraving invented by German Jakob Le Blon
• 1725- Stereotyping invented by William Ged in Scotland
• 1800: Iron printing presses invented.
• 1819: Rotary printing press invented by Napier.
• 1829: Embossed printing invented by Louis Braille.
• 1841: Type-composing machine invented.
• 1844: Electrotyping invented.
• 1846: Cylinder press invented by Richard Hoe. Cylinder press can print 8,000 sheets an hour.
• 1863: Rotary web-fed letterpress invented by William Bullock.
• 1865: Web offset press can print on both sides of paper at once.
• 1886: Linotype composing machineinvented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.
• 1870: Paper is now mass-manufactured from wood pulp.
• 1878: Photogravure printing invented by Karl Klic.
• 1890: Mimeograph machine introduced.
• 1891: Printing presses can now print and fold 90,000 4-page papers an hour. Diazotype invented (print photographs on fabric).
• 1892: 4-color rotary press invented.
• 1904: Offset lithography becomes common. The first comic book is published.
• 1907: Commercial silk screening invented.
• 1947: Phototypesetting made practical