The first type of printing to be used in Europe was block printing and that was always printed onto cloth throughout the 1300’s until paper became more appealing and more available in the 1400’s. It wasn’t until further into the 1400’s that there was mass producing of printing onto paper. All throughout these times prating was a growing business that involved printing and teenagers and young adults could get apprenticeships in printing factories where they would learn to handle the machines and print everything in black and white. These houses also became known as the printing press because f the types of equipment that the workers would use to use the print. The name from the device just came around from the method they use of applying pressure onto the cloth or paper which will make the ink stick onto the paper alms like a giant stamp. Nowadays we just use simple printers which are more complicated than a simple pressure pad and can print twice as much in half the time, hence how news papers get out so quickly.
For a long time block printing was the only type of printing that is available but now we have thing like screen priming, 3D printing and laser printing. We also have a more developed range of font and styles which is a reason why our newspapers are so different to those so many years ago. The very first known printed newspaper in Britain has blotted ink marks on it a well as everything being in one font and only a single size difference and was printed in 1665. One of the developed styles of printing was mentioned was 3D printing which we can do today on Microsoft Word when making charts but in the past writing and priming such things was only things of the rich and educated but in 2014 it is just an everyday skill that many people have.
It wasn’t just printing on to paper and cloth that counts as printing, it goes back even further to Ancient Egypt where they would print there designs of hieroglyphics onto the walls of the city that can still be seen today. This also does count as a form of printing. It can still be raced back to bible days where the stories would be written onto the paper when now you can buy printed versions of the bible anyway, all versions can have a different founts and styles that people may kind it easier to read with. Printing and writing have come such a long way from when they were only said to be from educational people and priests.
Since the invention of printing came around just for religious monks anyway the religion of Christianity ha had a lot of influence in the printing industry and helped it get so developed today for our books, work, newspapers and letters. We have also moved on from the traditional black and white printing on off colours paper days and we are now able to print in the colours across the spectrum, as well as digital printing so there is almost no use anymore for the printing press, improving everyones lives. In another area we also have photographs, but we are still able to help view them thanks to printing and even camera companies have created their own printing methods that have improved the industry.
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