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Chinese Emperor Ts’ai Lun, an official of the Imperial Court, invents paper.
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Koreans print books using movable type. Moveable type is a system of printing that uses moveable components (usually individual letters and punctuation).
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The Chinese are the first to use wooden type. Wooden type is just like moveable type except the components are made of wood as opposed to clay.
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German inventor Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press.
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Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer develop a process of printing in more than one color.
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Relation was the name the first weekly newspaper published. It was published in Antwerp. Johann Carolus was the publisher
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The modern printing press was becoming a global sensation.
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Earl Stanhope of England invented the Stanhope Press – a printing press made completely out of cast iron.
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German printer Friedrich Koenig implemented steam power into his press designs.
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Napier invents the rotary printing press. It is not yet perfected.
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Robert Hoe invents a double cylinder steam driven printing press in the United States.
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Moritz von Jacobi invented electrotyping. Electrotyping allows on to make a copy by the electrolytic deposition of copper on a mold.
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Web offset press allows printing on both sides of paper at once.
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Paper is now mass-manufactured from wood pulp.
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Linotype composing machine was invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.
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4-Color Rotary Press was invented allowing multiple colors to be used in print
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A phototypesetter a machine for photocomposition, which is the process of setting a material to be printed by projecting it onto photographic film from which the printing surface is prepared.
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iPad is released. This incredibly successful tablet is representative of the end of paper media.
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The Diamond Sutra is printed.
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During the T’ang Dynasty in China, the first form of printing is done by applying ink to a carved wooden block to make multiple transfers of an image.
