Printed Media

David Park

Woodblock Printing Year 220

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Woodblock printing generally involves using a block with a reverse negative impression of the desired print, covering it evenly with ink using a roller called a brayer and applying it to paper, canvas or some other form of substrate with enough pressure to get an even spread of ink.

Woodblock Printing Year 220

The advantages are that it is extremely efficient when used for a long time without stopping (no cleaning required). Also, it is a very cheap method of printing because, if done in the traditional way, very little machinery is required and is mostly done by hand. Due to lack of machinery, it takes very little space to carry out the actual printing and can be done in a single small room by a single person, which is part of what makes it very cheap. The disadvantages of woodblock printing are that it is extremely slow and, when it was invented, it was extremely difficult to automate. In addition to this, it prints a backwards copy of the print and as such it can be hard to create a new print by hand. As well as these points, compared to modern day printing methods it wastes rather a lot of ink, which can become expensive

Printing Press Year 1450

The printing press is similar to woodblock printing in that it involves applying a certain amount of pressure to material with the desired shape moulded in to it. The printing press, however, was automated in 1812 which dramatically increased the number of pages T h e m o d e rn p ri ti g p re ss i u se d a s a per a p a nfroml480 to n n s printed ch e hour d re i b l a e w a y o f m a ss p ri ti g a m a te ri l m o st coeliminated the need , n n a 800, and m m o n l n e w sp a p e rs , y l a fl ts a n d m a g a zi e s. I i extre m e l ch e a p to ru n o ve r e e n t s for manual operation. y l n g p e ri d s o f ti e , h o w e ve r i d o e s ta ke u p a l t o f sp a ce o o m t o w i m o d e rn p ri ti g p re sse s ta ki g u p w h o l w a re h o u se s th n n n e j st to ru n . T h i i w h y th e y a re su i d to p ri ti g n e w sp a p e rs u s s te n n a n d m a g a zi e s, o f w h i m i l o n s n e e d to b e p ri te d . n ch li n T h e m a i a d va n ta g e o f th e m o d e rn p ri ti g p re ss i th e n n n s extre m e l ch e a p co st w h e n ru n fo r l n g p e ri d s o f ti e , y o o m h o w e ve r th i i co u n te re d b y th e h u g e co st o f th e m a ch i e ry s s n i l , w h i i w h y i m u st b e u se d to p ri t m i l o n s o f i m s tse f ch s t n li te

Dot Matrix Printing Year 1964

Massachusetts, USA and quickly spread all over the United States and in to other Western countries. At the time could print 30 characters per second, which was extremely fast for the day.

A d o t m a tri p ri te r i a x n s p ri te r w i a p ri t h e a d th a t n th n m o ve s b a ck a n d fo rw a rd l a vi g sm a l o ts o n a e n ld su b stra te ( u su a l y p a p e r) i l n th e sh a p e s o f l tte rs o r e p i re s to l a ve th e d e si d ctu e re p ri t n It was invented in 1970 by the Digital .Equipment Corporation in

The advantages of this method of printing is that it was the first real printing method to be able to output print from a computer. In addition to this, it is relatively efficient compared to technologies of the time, but modern technologies are far superior. The disadvantages of a dot matrix printer is that it is, relative to modern technologies, very slow. In addition, it produced a low quality image due to its limitations in number of pins (early models only had a 5x7 grid of pins for each character, which could not print certain images such as Chinese scripts.

3D Printing Year 2003

3D printing is a printing technique that was first used in 2003, and is still being expanded and improved upon to this day. It has come a long way from only being able to print simple shapes (cubes, spheres etc.) to being able to print complex I w o rks b y sca n n i g i a 3 D m models,sta rt w i , in h i i t n n o d e l to as seen w the s th ch d i l ye d a n d sa ve d o n a co m picture. e p ri te r w i lth e n sp a p u te r. T h n l

sl w l b u i d u p th a t 3 D m o d e l w i d i re n t l ye rs o f o y l th ffe a m a te ri l a. T h e m a i a d va n ta g e o f 3 D p ri ti g i th a t i ca n b e u se d n n n s t to e ffe cti l te l p o rt 3 D o b j cts su ch a s to o l o r ve y e e s co m p o n e n ts, w h i ca n cu t d o w n m a ssi l o n tra n sp o rt ch ve y co sts. T h e m a i d i d va n ta g e i th a t i i sti l i d e ve l p m e n t n sa s t s l n o a n d w i l n o t b e a t a re a so n a b l p ri fo r h o m e u se fo r l e ce