Printing press time line

By cdl4582
  • 100

    Plow is invented (time not specified)

  • Jan 29, 1241

    1241: Koreans print books using movable type.

  • Jan 29, 1300

    1300: The first use of wooden type in China.

  • 1309: Europeans first make paper. However, the Chinese and Egyptians had started making paper centuries previous.
    Jan 29, 1309

    1309: Europeans first make paper. However, the Chinese and Egyptians had started making paper centuries previous.

  • 1338: First papermill opened in France.
    Jan 29, 1338

    1338: First papermill opened in France.

  • Jan 29, 1390

    1390: First papermill opened in Germany.

  • Jan 29, 1392

    1392: Foundries that can produce bronze type are opened in Korea.

  • Jan 29, 1423

    1423: In Europe block printing is used to print books.

  • Jan 29, 1452

    1452: In Europe, metal plates are first used in printing. Gutenberg begins printing the Bible which he finishes in 1456.

  • Jan 29, 1457

    1457: First color printing by Fust and Schoeffer.

  • Jan 29, 1465

    1465: Drypoint engravings invented by Germans.

  • Jan 29, 1476

    1476: William Caxton begins using a Gutenberg printing press in England.

  • Jan 29, 1477

    1477: Intaglio is first used for book illustration for a Flemish book called Il Monte Sancto di Dio.

  • 1501: Italic type first used.
    Jan 29, 1501

    1501: Italic type first used.

  • 1605: First weekly newspaper published in Antwerp.

  • 1611: King James Bible published.

    1611: King James Bible published.

  • 1660: Mezzotint invented in Germany.

  • 1691: First papermill opened in the American colonies.

  • 1702: Multi-colored engraving invented by German Jakob Le Blon. The first English language daily newspaper is published called the Daily Courant.

  • 1725: In Scotland stereotyping invented by William Ged.

  • 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.

  • 1865: Web offset press can print on both sides of paper at once.

  • 1870: Paper is now mass-manufactured from wood pulp.

  • 1884: The plow(s) could be attatched to animals be and dragged around the field, rather than walking.

  • 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

    1947: Phototypesetting made practical

  • 1958: Internet was invented

    1958: Internet was invented

  • Cite: http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/printing_3.htm

  • 618 to 906: T’ang Dynasty - the first printing is done in China using ink on carved wooden blocks begins to make multiple transfers of an image to paper.

    618 to 906: T’ang Dynasty - the first printing is done in China using ink on carved wooden blocks begins to make multiple transfers of an image to paper.

    618 to 906: T’ang Dynasty - the first printing is done in China using ink on carved wooden blocks begins to make multiple transfers of an image to paper.
  • 868: The Diamond Sutra is printed. (first book to be printed)

    868: The Diamond Sutra is printed. (first book to be printed)

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