5 gen 1903 anni - Ira Rubel develops offset printing.

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Between 1903 and 1904 paper manufacturer Ira Washington RubelOffsite Link of Nutley, New JerseyOffsite Link developed the first commercial lithographic offset systemOffsite Link, or offset pressOffsite Link, for printing on paper. Rubel's first offset press was operated in Rubel's New York plant for a year before it was sold to the Union Lithographic Company of San Francisco for $5,000. After it had been shipped out to California, the press waited out the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire on a wharf in nearby Oakland. It began operation in San Francisco in 1907. Rubel's original offset pressOffsite Link is preserved in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.