subject: History of managed print services [print this page] History of managed print services History of managed print services
When we think of managed print services today, the most common thought that may come to mind is the huge level of print waste that is done across the world. Green printing and other practices have become more than a trend, and rather a basic practice helping to address the huge demand for paper and ink all over the world. Printing presses have come a long way, from the early days of the T'ang Dynasty to the Gutenberg marvels and other milestones throughout history that have all played a major role in the invention and creation of the printing presses that are used all over the world, from the East to the West. Here is a look back at important achievements in the world of managed print services:
618 - 906: first printing is done in China in the T'ang Dynasty using ink on carved wooden blocks that make multiple transfers of an image onto paper.
1241: books are printed in Korea using movable type.
1300: the first use of wooden type happens in China.
1309: the first paper is made in Europe, after it has been created in China and Egypt centuries before.
1338: France opens its first papermill.
1390: Germany opens its first papermill.
1423: block printing to print books begins in Europe.
1452: the first metal plates for printing are created in Europe.
1456: Gutenberg finishes printing the Bible.
1457: Fust and Schoeffer create the first colour prints.
1465: Germany creates the first drypoint engravings.
1476: William Caxton started using a Gutenberg printing press in England.
1495: England opens its first papermill.
1501: Italic type is used for the first time.
1605: the first weekly newspaper is published in Antwerp, Germany.
1611: the King James Bible is published.
1660: Germany invents mezzotint.
1691: America opens first papermill.
1702: multi-colored engraving is invented in Germany by Jakob Le Blon.
1725: William Ged of Scotland invents stereotyping.
1800: the first iron printing presses are invented.
1819: Napie invents rotary printing press.
1829: Louis Braille invents embossed printing.
1841: type-composing machine is invented.
1844: electrotyping is invented.
1846: Richard Hoe invents the first cylinder press, which prints 8,000 sheets an hour.
1863: William Bullock invents the first rotary web-fed letterpress.
1865: web offset press is developed so that it prints on both sides of paper at once.
1886: Ottmar Mergenthaler invents the linotype composing machine.
1870: paper is mass-produced from wood pulp, without any inkling of future green printing trends.
1878: Karl Klic invents photogravure printing.
1890: the first mimeograph machine is introduced.
1891: printing presses can now print and fold 90,000 four page papers per hour.
1892: the first four colour rotary press is invented.
1904: offset lithography is used throughout the world.
1947: phototypesetting becomes mainstream across the world.
1960's: Xerox invents the first photocopy machine.
1969: the laser printer is invented at Xerox by researcher Gary Starkweather.
1990's: the demand for managed print services increases across the world.
