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The History of Printing Part I: Antiquity to Enlightenment
Mesopotamians and Buddhists: The Fathers of Printing – Believe it or not printing predates even paper. Somewhere around 3000 BC Mesopotamian peoples began to copy images with round cylinder seals that were used to roll out impresses onto clay tablets. … Continue reading
The History of Printing Part II: The Birth of the Information Revolution
The evolution of printing had been meandering along for thousands of years until 1452 when Gutenberg developed and integrated the idea of movable type with a variety of printing technologies that had slowly evolved in preceding centuries. In addition to … Continue reading
The History of Printing part III: Access to Knowledge and the Shift To Secularism
As a result of the advent printing press and its popularization at book fairs, by the 1500s there were over 1000 printing shops in Europe. By this time these shops had produced somewhere around 35,000 separate manuscript totaling around 20 … Continue reading
History of Printing IV: The Age of Print
Getting back to the age between 1300 and 1600 that saw and proceeded the advent and popularization of printing it is important to understand that printing in and of itself would not have initiated the profound social changes that were … Continue reading
Color Printing Is Here To Stay…
Or Why Internet Can’t Kill the Print Media Star (uuugh!) With the internet increasingly dominating the flow of news and information, newspapers are dropping off like flies. Now smart phones seem to be replacing even the ubiquitous wallet in many … Continue reading
10 Rush Flyer Printing Tips
The world of advertising is necessarily fast-paced. How many times have you heard of an event that you just had to advertise that was only a week away, or perhaps four days away for that matter? Opportunities are discovered, events … Continue reading
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