The history of printing starts as early as 3000 BCE, when the proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations used cylinder seals to certify documents written...

objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The earliest known form of printing evolved from ink rubbings made on paper or cloth from...

printing press, which started the Printing Revolution. Modelled on the design of existing screw presses, a single Renaissance movable-type printing press...

of printing called mechanical woodblock printing on paper started in China during the 7th century in the Tang dynasty. The use of woodblock printing spread...

Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in...

Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the...

English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric...

Color printing or colour printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color (as opposed to simpler black and white or monochrome printing). Woodblock...

Digital printing is a method of printing from a digital-based image directly to a variety of media. It usually refers to professional printing where small-run...

Relief printing is a family of printing methods where a printing block, plate or matrix, which has had ink applied to its non-recessed surface, is brought...

Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing for producing many copies by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against individual...

Daisy wheel printing is an impact printing technology invented in 1970 by Andrew Gabor at Diablo Data Systems. It uses interchangeable pre-formed type...

The history of printing in Poland began in the late 15th century, when following the creation of the Gutenberg Bible in 1455, printers from Western Europe...

Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by...

Thermal printing (or direct thermal printing) is a digital printing process which produces a printed image by passing paper with a thermochromic coating...

NBER Working Paper No. 10586. doi:10.3386/w10586. Turnbull, A History of Calico Printing in Great Britain, 1951. "Maryhill Burgh Halls: Historic Stained...

the slack business of printing and publishing. The establishment of Bangala Jantra in 1860 was a watershed in the printing history of Dhaka. Its proprietor...

paper and printing, and continues through to the modern-day business of book printing. The earliest knowledge society has on the history of books actually...

graphō 'to write') is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone)...

figure in the early history of printing and a pivotal force in the emergence of Venice as one of the first great centers of the printing press. In October...

The global spread of the printing press began with the invention of the printing press with movable type by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany c. 1439...

The history of printing in Ipswich, Suffolk dates back to the sixteenth century. The oldest extant book published in Ipswich is an edition of Historia...

art of printing first entered India through Goa. In a letter to St. Ignatius of Loyola, written on April 30, 1556, Father Gasper Caleza speaks of a ship...

from the onset of moveable-type printing in the 15th century, yet earlier developments and technologies related to writing and printing can be considered...

on controlled areas of a receiving medium, was in 1962 by C. R. Winston, Teletype Corporation, using continuous inkjet printing. The ink was a red stamp-pad...

Laser printing is an electrostatic digital printing process. It produces high-quality text and graphics (and moderate-quality photographs) by repeatedly...

3D printing or additive manufacturing is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model. It can be done in a variety...

Pad printing (also called tampography) is a printing process that can transfer a 2-D image onto a 3-D object (e.g., a ceramic pottery). This is accomplished...

Dot matrix printing, sometimes called impact matrix printing, is a computer printing process in which ink is applied to a surface using a relatively low-resolution...

Dye-sublimation printing (or dye-sub printing) is a term that covers several distinct digital computer printing techniques that involve using heat to...