The history of printing starts as early as 3000 BCE, when the proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations used cylinder seals to certify documents written...

objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The earliest known form of printing evolved from ink rubbings made on paper or cloth from...

printing press, which started the Printing Revolution. Modelled on the design of existing screw presses, a single Renaissance movable-type printing press...

of printing called mechanical woodblock printing on paper started in China during the 7th century in the Tang dynasty. The use of woodblock printing spread...

Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in...

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...

English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric...

Color printing or colour printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color (as opposed to simpler black and white or monochrome printing). Woodblock...

Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing for producing many copies by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against individual...

The history of printing in Poland began in the late 15th century, when following the creation of the Gutenberg Bible in 1455, printers from Western Europe...