PRINTING WORLD HISTORY

Printing the found and developed first in China and Korea. Wood printing techniques (Woodblock) primitive has been used in the 9th century in China. The oldest documents are still there, namely Buddhist manuscripts recently discovered in Korea, dating from 751. The earliest books produced through woodblock printing is a more sophisticated Chinese Diamond Sutra (Buddhist text) which comes from the year 868.

Print movable type of ceramic material discovered in 1041 by Bi Sheng, the Song Dynasty (960-1269). While the print made from metal movable type was invented in 1234 in Korea by Chwe Yoon Eyee during the Goryeo Dynasty, 216 years before Gutenberg invented the printing. In the 12th and 13th centuries found in the thousands of books printed in Chinese libraries. Book movable type printing which still exists today is a book called Jikji, printed in 1377 in Korea.

It is estimated that the printing technology from the Far East into Europe via trade routes from China to Arabia, across India. Johannes Gutenberg is derived from the German city of Mainz. Develop printing technology in 1450. Johan Fust (Gutenberg financial backers) and Peter Pchoffer experimented with him in Mainz.

Based on engine design winepress, Gutenberg developed the use of movable type and start using oil ink.
A printing company founded in Venice in 1469, and in 1500 the city had 417 printers. In the year 1470. Johann printing Heynlin opened in Paris. Year 1476, William Caxton opened a printing press in England. Juan Pablos Italian who opened a printing company imports in Mexico City in 1539. Stephen Day was the first to build a printing press in North America, precisely at the Massachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press. The first images of Europe's most stylish print Gutenberg is Dance of Death by Matthias Huss in Lyon in 1499.

Around the 16th century, the work associated with the printing press began having specialization. In Europe, between the years 1500 to 1700 grew publishers began making reliefs buku.Blake Etching techniques in the early 16th century, after the discovery that the acid could be used to display the carvings on the sheet metal. Rembrant van Rijn, Francisco Goya and Pablo Picasso are some artists who have used this technique to create their most important works of art.

In the late 18th century, there were some remarkable innovations in the technical graphics printing. Bewick developed the method by using the equipment at the end of the wooden gravir. An actor and writer of German nationality, Aloys Senefelder, find a lithograph in 1798. This technique has received great attention in the 1890s after Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and other artists to create color printing.

In the early 19th century, Stanhope, George E. Clymer, Koenig and others introduced new kinds of printed letters, which in terms of discovery far surpasses the power of thought sebelumnya.Siapa recent development of electronic media is growing rapidly as to some opinions saying that this will threaten or at least have a major impact for the print media. The existence of the e-book, e-business, e-mail, e-commerce, internet, multimedia, sms, MP3 and other communication technologies more or less been taken over and take the share of print media.

Some effects of growing media today, such as PDF and Manual Book. I remember in the years 1995-1999, when I became an instructor Scanner and Imagesetter High end, clients who buy the machine will get the machine's manual is almost a closet. Lots and thick. But now, since the development of the PDF format manual machine all in a CD, with PDF format. Very simple, and indeed the PDF format has meberi major breakthrough in graphics industry.

Imagine, with the PDF format, so this can happen when digital advertising and e-book, which penetrate the boundaries of platforms, software, due to open a PDF file, Acrobat Reader software is required to free for download, and can be opened anywhere, PC or Macintosh, so there is no reason people who have computers can not open PDF files worldwide.
The newspaper today read anything via the Internet so easily, we can choose to stay important news that we need quickly. Want to order the latest book in foreign countries, we are now looking for information via the Internet. My brother just 4th grade, every school tasks such as told to search for images and custom homes in the Indonesian traditional clothes so my brothers stay open in the Internet network and the traditional house type images in an instant it appeared the pictures custom homes. Living in the save and print completed. Email to send a letter to anyone. Throughout the world, we can use the email facility of the writing on the paper and sent via post.

Print and electronic media each have advantages and disadvantages. At least books, newspapers, magazines, brosure, posters, and other print media does not require electrical power supply or to mebacanya, there is no software to get a virus, or computer to hang and very slow.
Print product can be found everywhere (even though ditoilet) and readers can flip back and the missing information or are poorly understood because it is not necessary in the switch-off as well as info from the TV, computer or other electronic equipment.

The existence of mobile technology and a very fast sms result in people no longer need a card for Christmas or Lebaran greetings. Simply by sms, then in the blink of an eye we can say hello to tens or hundreds of people, (maybe a wedding invitation as well as enough just use sms, cheap).

May all that convenience in use in things useful, and nice day today.