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A chinese Alchemist, Pi-Sheng, develops movable type by carving individual characters in clay blocks that can be arranged to produce acomplete text. By 1400, metal type is being used in Korea.
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A chinese Court official produces the first sheets of paper. Pilgrims are soon using paper to copy prayers carved on temple pillars by applying ink to the carving and then pressing a peice of paper against it.
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Papermaking begins in Europe, having slowly traveled westward from China through the Muslim World, by caravan amd cpmquest, to Muslim controlled Spain.
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At King Tut's grave, priests stamp hieroglyphics on a clay tablet.
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Europeans begin using carved woodblocks to print images and lage capital letters on paper but still rely on copyist to fill each page with written text.
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Johannes Gutenburg, converts a wine press into the first printing press and develops his own movable metal type.
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Improved Graphics software combines typesetting, layout, imaging, and color separation into desktop publishing.
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Alois Senefelder of Munich develops Lithography. First used primarily to print images.
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Freidrich Koenig devlops a rotary press.
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The british scientist Fox Talbot captures the image of a leaf on a photosensative metal plate covered with a fine gauze, resulting in a screened image.
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William Bullock develops the web press.
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Ottmar Mergenthaler invents the linotype machine.
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IRa Rubel develops offset printing, in which a rubber covered cylinder transfers ink from the plate to the paper.
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Phototypesetting is introduced.
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GRaphic Communications enters the digital Ear with electronic typesetting.Image scanners began to replace screen photography.
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Improved graphics software combines typesetting, layout, imaging, and color seperation into desktop publishing.
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Digital technology begins to replace printing plates as lasers translate page files into a pettern of electrical charges.
