HISTORY OF

PRINTERS.
By Beth

1457: FIRST COLOUR PRINTING

BY FUST AND SCHOEFFER.
Fust who was a goldsmith, lent Gutenberg 800 guilders in
1450 to perfect his movable-type printing process. The court
found in Fusts favour, and Gutenberg lost his invention and
equipment. With Schoeffer, who was one of Fusts witnesses
in the lawsuit, Fust set up his own printing firm and
published the 42-line Bible in 1456. The Psalter, the first
example of colour printing, with only red-ink printing and
two-colour initials, was finished in 1457. Fusts firm
published further works, Ciceros De officiis (1465), the first
classical text ever printed.

1501: ITALIC TYPE FIRST USED.

Italic type was first used by Aldus Manutius and the Aldine
Press in 1500, in the frontispiece of an although the first
complete book in italic was an edition of Virgil dedicated to
Italy. Unlike the italic type of today, the capital letters were
upright roman capitals which were shorter than the
ascending lower-case italic letters and used about 65 tied
letters in the Aldine Dante and Virgil of 1501. This Aldine
italic became the model for most italic types. It was very
popular in its own day and was widely. The Italians called the
character Aldino, while others called it Italic. The slanting
italic capital was first introduced by printers in Lyon.

1710: MULTI-COLORED ENGRAVING

INVENTED BY GERMAN JAKOB LE BLON.
In 1708 and 1709 he is known to have made colorant mixing experiments
in Amsterdam and in 1710 he made his first colour prints with yellow, red,
and blue plates. The tapestry process involved using white, yellow, red,
blue, and black fibers to create images. The printing process involved
using three different intaglio plates, inked in different colours. During his
stay in England he produced several dozen of three- and four-coloured
images in multiple copies that did sold well in England. In the long run his
enterprise did not succeed.

1947: PHOTOTYPESETTING
MADE PRACTICAL

The major advancement presented by the phototypesetting

machines over the Linotype machine "hot type" machines was the
metal type .This "cold type" technology could also be used in
office environments where "hot metal" machines could not. The
use of phototypesetting grew rapidly in the 1960s when software
was developed to convert marked up copy, usually typed on
paper tape, to the codes that controlled the phototypesetters.

1960:

Credit is generally given to the artist Andy

Warhol for popularising screen printing as an
artistic technique, identified as serigraphy, in
the United States. Warhol was supported in his
production by master Screen Printer Michel Caza
a founding member, and is particularly identified
with his 1962 depiction of actress Marilyn
Monroe, known as the Marylyn Diptych, screen
printed in garish colours. Sister Mary Corita Kent,
gained international fame for her vibrant

serigraphs during the 1960s and 1970s.

1970

We introduce this breakthrough technology,

which transfers images using an electrostatic
charge and tonerinstead of ink and pressure
and enables the seamless rendering of
digital documents onto paper. We introduce
two-sided copying, which reduces paper
costs, saves time previously spent reinserting
pages, saves paper storage space and lessens
the environmental impacts of making and
using paper.

1990:

HP dominated the industry early on. In the early 1990s,

inkjet printer sales started a dramatic growth that would
last over ten years. In the mid 1990s, HP began losing
ground to competitors as it fell behind. Competitors
offered inkjet printers with higher resolution, which
sometimes had better print quality and sometimes not. In
the mid-1990s, the pricing model for the industry changed
in a manner that was new to the computer industry. The
print heads made by all industry players were effectively
proprietary; they only worked on the printers from that
manufacturer.