- 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
