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    The document summarizes the history and development of printing and press processes. It discusses the origins of paper in China in the 2nd century AD. In the 15th century, woodcut was developed as a relief printing technique. In the 16th century, Lucas Cranach invented the chiaroscuro woodcut using multiple color blocks. The 20th century saw innovations like screen printing, xerography, desktop publishing, and polymer banknotes. Digital printing emerged in the 21st century alongside developments in inkjet technology for signage and packaging. The document also provides brief overviews of various printing processes like offset, lithography, gravure, screen, flexography.

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    The document summarizes the history and development of printing and press processes. It discusses the origins of paper in China in the 2nd century AD. In the 15th century, woodcut was developed as a relief printing technique. In the 16th century, Lucas Cranach invented the chiaroscuro woodcut using multiple color blocks. The 20th century saw innovations like screen printing, xerography, desktop publishing, and polymer banknotes. Digital printing emerged in the 21st century alongside developments in inkjet technology for signage and packaging. The document also provides brief overviews of various printing processes like offset, lithography, gravure, screen, flexography.

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    History of

    PRESS & PRINTING PROCESS

    NAME: RABIUL ISLAM EMON


    ID : 152031029
    MODULE: GRD 2201
    Origins in CHINA
     A Chinese man court official
    named Ts’ai Lun (or Cai Lun) is
    credited with inventing paper in
    the second century AD
    FIFTEENTH CENTURY AD

     Woodcut is a relief printing


    technique in which text
    and images are carved
    into the surface of a block
    of wood.
    SIXTEENTH CENTURY AD

     In 1507 Lucas Cranach invents


    the chiaroscuro woodcut, a
    technique in which drawings
    are reproduced using two or
    more blocks printed in
    different colors.
    TWENTIETH CENTURY

     In 1907 the Englishman Samuel


    Simon is awarded a patent for
    the process of using silk fabric
    as a printing screen. Screen
    printing quickly becomes
    popular for producing
    expensive wallpaper and
    printing on fabrics such as linen
    and silk.
    TWENTIETH CENTURY

     In 1938 Xerography, a dry


    photocopying technique is
    invented by Chester
    Carlson. The first
    commercial xerographic
    copier is introduced in 1949
    but it is the 1959 Xerox
    914 plain paper copier that
    is the breakthrough.
    TWENTIETH CENTURY

     Desktop publishing takes off in


    1985. The combination of the
    Apple Macintosh computer,
    printers and imagesetters
    powered by Adobe PostScript
    and the layout application
    Aldus PageMaker makes
    publishing more affordable.
     In 1992 Australia is the first
    country to use
    polymer banknotes for general
    circulation.
    TWENTY FIRST CENTURIES

     Bigger changes happen in


    digital printing with
    machines that evolve as fast
    as the companies that
    produce them. Take
    the NexPress for example. It
    is initially a joint
    development from
    Heidelberg and Kodak, later
    taken over completely by
    Kodak.
    TWENTY FIRST CENTURIES

     One area of the market


    that evolves quickly is that
    of large format inkjet
    presses for the sign &
    display market. Inkjet
    technology also starts
    making inroads in the
    packaging industry.
    TYPES OF PRINTING PROCESS
    Offset Printing

     Offset printing was first


    invented in 1875 by Robert
    Barclay.
     Offset printing is where the
    inked image is transferred
    from a plate to a rubber
    blanket; from here it is then
    transferred on to the
    printing surface.
    Lithography

     Lithography was first


    introduced in 1796 by a
    German author and actor
    Alois Senefelder as a method
    to publish theatrical works
    cheaply.
     The process starts usually with
    an image drawn with oil, fat or
    wax upon a smooth
    lithographic limestone plate.
    DIGITAL PRINTING

     With two corporations in


    control of the industry
    (Inkjet and Xerography),
    Digital printing was first
    introduced in 1991.
    Gravure Printing

     Gravure printing,
    photomechanical intagli
    o process in which the
    image to be printed
    consists of depressions or
    recesses on the surface
    of the printing plate. The
    process is the reverse
    of relief printing, in which
    the image is raised from
    the surface of the plate.
    SCREEN PRINTING

     Screen printing is the


    process of transferring a
    stenciled design onto a flat
    surface using a mesh
    screen, ink and a
    squeegee. Fabric and
    paper are the most
    commonly screen-printed
    surfaces.
    Flexography

     Flexography, form of rotary printing in which ink is applied to various surfaces


    by means of flexible rubber (or other elastomeric) printing plates.
    THANK YOU EVERYONE

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