Graphics time line
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Updated: 9 Jan 2020
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Created byKate Kennedy
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The discovery of clay tabletsPapermaking begins in EuropeJohannes Gutenberg and the first printing pressJ.C. Le Blond, a painter, patents a color printing processAlois Senefelder and the invention of lithography. The process of oil and water do not mixFriedrich Koenig develops a rotary pressThe first “screened’ photosensitive metal plateWilliam Bullock of the United States develops the web pressGraphic communications enters the computer age with digital graphicsLinotype machine inventedIra Rubel develops offset printingPhototypesetting is introducedImproved graphics softwareDigital technology replacing printing plates.The Chinese produces the first sheets of paperCarved woodblocks used to print images and large capital letters on paperMoveable type with individual characters
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