Graphics design By: Jarrod Weaver

1040

Movable type with

3000 bc 868 ad 105 ad individual character

Carved woodblocks The Chinese

produces the first
used to print sheets of paper
The discovery of clay
tablets
images and large
capital letters on
paper

1040
3000

868

105
ad

ad
bc
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1796

Alois Senefelder and the

1150 1450 1717 invention of lithography.
The process of oil and
Paper making Johannes Gutenberg J.C. Le Blond, a painter, water do not mix.
begins in and the first printing patents a color printing
Europe press. process.
1150

1717

1796
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1863

William Bullock of the

1810 1852 1860 United States develops
the web press
Friedrich Koenig the first screened Ira Rubel develops
develops a rotary photosensitive metal offset printing
press. plate.
1810

1852

1860

1863
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1980

Improved graphics
1965 software.
1960 1965

Linotype machine
Phototypesetting Graphic communications
invented.
is introduced. enters the computer age
with digital graphics
1960

1965

1965

1980
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Digital
technology
replacing
printing plates