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Hand set composition is produced with individual metal characters assembled into lines using a composing stick much as Gutenberg did in 1450.
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The earliest known book-using woodcuts was printed by Albrecht Pfizer in Bamberg, Germany about 1460.
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The first paper mill in England was built in 1494.
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The first printing press in the new world was installed in Mexico in 1535.
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The first printed on the new press was the Freeman’s Oath in 1639.
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The first ink factory was established in America in 1742.
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Paper manufacturing from mechanical groundwood pulp was introduced in 1840.
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the first steam press for lithography was invented in France in1850.
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An American, William bullock also developed the first web press, in 1856.
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Bisulphite of lime came into use about 1866.
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The first use of the offset principle by lithography was for metal decorating about 1875.
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A device for folding the papers as they came from the press was added in 1875.
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the first typesetting machines functioned satisfactorily; none were sufficiently practical for commercial operation until the invention of the Linotype by Omar Mergenthaler in 1886.
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The first color process work was printed successfully in 1893.
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The first toner was developed for electrophotography in 1938.
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Web presses are used almost exclusively by gravure and have been a dominant factor in lithographic printing since 1954
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The first plate less digital printing system was ink-jet introduced in 1970.
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digital printing started in 1970 with the introduction of ink-jet printing, followed by electro photographic laser printers in 1978
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Digital scanners were introduced in 1982.
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The first coatings on anodized aluminum for process color printing became available in 1990.
