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History of printing
Techniques
Woodblock printing
200
Movable type
1040
Intaglio (printmaking)
1430
Printing press
c. 1440
Etching
c. 1515
Mezzotint
1642
Relief printing
1690
Aquatint
1772
Lithography
1796
Chromolithography
1837
Rotary press
1843
Hectograph
1860
Offset printing
1875
Hot metal typesetting
1884
Mimeograph
1885
Daisy wheel printing
1889
Photostat and rectigraph
1907
Screen printing
1911
Spirit duplicator
1923
Dot matrix printing
1925
Xerography
1938
Spark printing
1940
Phototypesetting
1949
Inkjet printing
1950
Dye-sublimation
1957
Laser printing
1969
Thermal printing
c. 1972
Solid ink printing
1972
Thermal-transfer printing
1981
3D printing
1986
Digital printing
1991
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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 printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat (planographic) image carrier. Ink rollers transfer ink to the image areas of the image carrier, while a water roller applies a water-based film to the non-image areas.
The modern "web" process feeds a large reel of paper through a large press machine in several parts, typically for several meters, which then prints continuously as the paper is fed through.
Development of the offset press came in two versions: in 1875 by Robert Barclay of England for printing on tin and in 1904 by Ira Washington Rubel of the United States for printing on paper.[1] Rubel's contemporary in Continental Europe was Kašpar Hermann, the author of the offset machine prototype (1904), holder of a patent for an offset disc machine (two rubber transfer rollers facing each other) – rolling-press. In 1907, he successfully started printing in Germany on his Triumph sheetfed offset press.[2]
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