History of Printing

The history of printing dates back to ancient civilizations like that of EgyptÆs or ChinaÆs. The Chinese used rice pith while the Egyptians used papyrus to make paper, something that would transform society. Papyrus was made by taking out the stringy fibers from the pith of stalks of plants. These strips were then woven together and beaten until they were flat. As Romano (2005, p. 40) explains, ôThe resulting æsheetÆ of crossed fibers was smoothed further with a stone, bone, or shell.ö In this, we have the origins of paper which served as the foundation of printing then and for centuries, b

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16). Though mechanization would quickly replace the popularity of iron hand press printing, because they worked so well and seldom broke down many small-town newspapers continued to use them well into the 20th century. Technology has often reduced the number of workers required while increasing productivity in many industries. The same is true of printing. Iron hand press printing only reigned in the industry for scant more than a decade with the introduction of machines in commercial printing. Printing technology became widely popular after the introduction in 1814 of the steam-powered cylinder printing press invented by Friedrich Gottlob Loenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, which was used to print The Times of London, (Monaghan, 2005, p. A14). Mechanization revolutionized printing, from the numbers required to print to the methods and ways in which printing could be carried out. By 1816, one machine press, the ôperfecting cylinder press, was able to print 900 two-sided sheets per hours,ö (Monaghan, 2005, p. A15). By the middle of the 1800s, American manufacturer R. Hoe & Company had built a newspaper press that weighed 62,000 pounds and printed 20,000 sheets per hour, (Monaghan, 2005, p. A14). The iron hand press was ab
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