printing presses
Ink-and-paper machinery
Printing presses are machines that transfer ink onto paper or other materials, producing multiple copies of text or images.
The printing press revolutionized information distribution when introduced in the fifteenth century.
Today the term covers everything from small letterpress machines to massive industrial equipment producing newspapers and books: The printing presses ran all night to meet the deadline.
Printing from raised surfaces
- lithographyGrease-based flat plate printing
- offsetCompensate by opposing force
- gravureRecessed-plate printing method
- flexographyRaised-plate printing method
inkjet · thermography · rotary · flatbed · platen · cylinder · movable type · typecasting
Pressed pulp for writing
- inkWriting fluid
- rollersRotating cylindrical movers
- platesFlat eating dishes
- fontsCharacter set designs
galleys · proofs · imposition · collating · folding · cutting · trimming · stitching
Printing press inventor's name
- incunabulaEarliest European printed books
- woodblockCarved printing matrix
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
broadside ballads · chapmen · early modern · samizdat · Fleet Street
Bound written works
- newspapersPrinted daily publications
- magazinesPeriodic illustrated publications
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
- pamphletsThin informational booklets
broadsheets · periodicals · gazettes · tabloids · folios · manuscripts · editions · volumes
letterpress
Printing from raised surfaces
- lithographyGrease-based flat plate printing
- offsetCompensate by opposing force
- gravureRecessed-plate printing method
flexography · inkjet · thermography · rotary · flatbed · platen · cylinder · movable type · typecasting · composing
paper
Pressed pulp for writing
fonts · galleys · proofs · imposition · collating · folding · cutting · trimming · stitching · signatures
Gutenberg
Printing press inventor's name
- incunabulaEarliest European printed books
- woodblockCarved printing matrix
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
Reformation · broadside ballads · chapmen · early modern · samizdat · Fleet Street
books
Bound written works
- newspapersPrinted daily publications
- magazinesPeriodic illustrated publications
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
pamphlets · broadsheets · periodicals · gazettes · tabloids · folios · manuscripts · editions · volumes · circulation
reporters
Those who gather news
- editorsContent revisers and correctors
- newsroomsJournalistic workplaces
- headlinesArticle titles in newspapers
bylines · datelines · columns · editorials · correspondents · articles · features · scoops · deadlines · copy
- East German Industrychemical industry, lignite mining, steel mills, heavy machinery, machine tools
- equipmentconstruction equipment, medical equipment, industrial equipment, office equipment, farm equipment
- machineryengine, machinery, industrial machinery, motors, engines
- publishingpublishers, editors, editor, publishing house, books
- art studioseasels, canvases, brushes, palettes, paint
- capital equipmentmachinery, heavy equipment, factories, generators, turbines
printing presseshandwritten manuscripts
Texts inscribed personally, not printed
hand copying · calligraphy · scriptoriums · longhand · oral tradition
printing presseswebsites
Internet pages collections
social media · e-books · online platforms · broadcast media · television
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