The collected works of Yi Munsun (the literary name of Yi Kyu-bo), the great poet, scholar, and statesman of Korea's Koryo Dynasty (918-1392), were edited and printed with metal movable type by his son Yi Ham in about 1241.
The History of Printing and Printing Processes Timeline of Printing Introduction
618 to 906: T’ang Dynasty - the first printing is done in China using ink on carved wooden blocks begins to make multiple transfers of an image to paper.868: The Diamond Sutra is printed.1241: Koreans print books using movable type.1300: The first use of wooden type in China.1309: Europeans first make paper . However, the Chinese and Egyptians had started making paper centuries previous.1338: First papermill opened in France.1390: First papermill opened in Germany.1392: Foundries that can produce bronze type are opened in Korea.1423: In Europe block printing is used to print books.1452: In Europe, metal plates are first used in printing. Gutenberg begins printing the Bible which he finishes in 1456.1457: First color printing by Fust and Schoeffer.1465: Drypoint engravings invented by Germans.1476: William Caxton begins using a Gutenberg printing press in England.1477: Intaglio is first used for book illustration for a Flemish book called Il Monte Sancto di Dio.1495: First papermill opened in England.1501: Italic type first used.1550: Wallpaper introduced in Europe.1605: First weekly newspaper published in Antwerp.1611: King James Bible published.1660: Mezzotint invented in Germany.1691: First papermill opened in the American colonies.1702: Multi-colored engraving invented by German Jakob Le Blon. The first English language daily newspaper is published called the Daily Courant.1725: In Scotland stereotyping invented by William Ged.1800: Iron printing presses invented.1819: Rotary printing press invented by Napier.1829: Embossed printing invented by Louis Braille .1841: Type-composing machine invented.1844: Electrotyping invented.1846: Cylinder press invented by Richard Hoe. Cylinder press can print 8,000 sheets an hour.1863: Rotary web-fed letterpress invented by William Bullock.1865: Web offset press can print on both sides of paper at once.1886: Linotype composing machineinvented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.1870: Paper is now mass-manufactured from wood pulp.1878: Photogravure printing invented by Karl Klic.1890: Mimeograph machine introduced.1891: Printing presses can now print and fold 90,000 4-page papers an hour. Diazotype invented (print photographs on fabric).1892: 4-color rotary press invented.1904: Offset lithography becomes common. The first comic book is published.1907: Commercial silk screening invented.1947: Phototypesetting made practical
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