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    A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring...
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    facing each other) – rolling-press. In 1907, he successfully started printing in Germany on his Triumph sheetfed offset press. Lithography was initially...
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    A rotary printing press is a printing press in which the images to be printed are curved around a cylinder. Printing can be done on various substrates...
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    Sheng around 1040 AD and the printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century. The technology of printing played a key role in the development...
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    to some degree, limited to primarily East Asia. The creation of the printing press in Europe may have been influenced by various sporadic reports of movable...
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    pottery imprints, and cloth printing. Initially a method of printing patterns on cloth such as silk, woodblock printing for texts on paper originated...
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    the printing press began with the invention of the printing press with movable type by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany c. 1439. Western printing technology...
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    Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by...
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    The printing press check is a step in the printing process. It takes place after a printing press is set up but before the print run is underway. While...
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    capability of digital presses means that digital printing is reaching the point where it can match or supersede offset printing technology's ability to...
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