GCM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Aldus Manutius, King James Version, Johannes Gutenberg
28 Nov 2017
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History and overview of sheetfed and web offset printing. In the beginning: a chronological history of printing newspaper) can be reused and changed up. The press was fashioned from a wine press page of text has 42 lines in it. 4000 bc - babylonians printing by impression with seals or stamps into moist clay. 3000 bc - papyrus paper invented from papyrus plant, used in egypt, greece, and. 690 bc - tablets engraved in marble with information, displayed in market places (first. 200 bc - parchment made from sheepskin and vellum (made from skins of calves used) 105 ad - ts"ai lun (china) credited with the invention of paper from tree bark, hemp, 751 ad - chinese paper makers captured by arabs - show their skills to their captors. 1009 ad - first paper mill in spain, built by arabs. 1041 ad - moveable clay type invented in china - but poor ink and poor substrates a.
