3D printing Jump to: navigation‚ search For methods of applying a 2-D image on a 3-D surface‚ see pad printing. Part of the series on the History of printing | Woodblock printing | 200 | Movable type | 1040 | Intaglio | 1430s | Printing press | 1454 | Lithography | 1796 | Chromolithography | 1837 | Rotary press | 1843 | Flexography | 1873 | Mimeograph | 1876 | Hot metal typesetting | 1886 | Offset press | 1903 | Screen-printing | 1907 | Dye-sublimation | 1957 | Phototypesetting
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OFFSET PRINTING PRESSES Offset printing is called offset lithography. That printing process is typically used for commercial printing. It is a distinct process that is commonly used among commercial vendors that produce large orders of magazines‚ catalogs‚ posters‚ etc. It is also called offset printing for the way that the inks are used to print images and text to the substrate. The process starts by taking digital files and creating a special type of negative film. The negatives are used
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A History of Typesetting and Graphic Communication 1 Communication processes may include verbal communication‚ written communication and body or paralanguage communication. Verbal communication is most widely used followed by written communication. Written communication requires careful planning‚ and the choices of words used are very important for communication. The nonverbal elements of communication used to modify meaning and convey emotion is known as paralanguage. This type of communication
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The European e-Business Market Watch Sector Report No. 03-I (July 2005) ICT and Electronic Business in the Publishing & Printing Industry Key issues and case studies European Commission Enterprise & Industry Directorate General Publishing and printing The e-Business W@tch The European Commission‚ Enterprise & Industry Directorate General‚ launched the e-Business W@tch to monitor the growing maturity of electronic business across different sectors of the economy in the enlarged
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The Printing Press There have been many important inventions over the past millennium. Many of them have helped shape society into what it is today. None however have contributed as much to the world as the printing press has. The printing press was invented in the year 1440 by Johann Gutenberg of Mainz‚ Germany. The printing press consisted of a large press which held plates where movable type could be inserted to spell out entire books page by page. The press was either operated by a large
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The Printing Press It is argued that the printing press is one of the most significant inventions of all time ranked alongside the wheel and the plow (Johannes Gutenberg and‚ 2009). The man credited with its invention is Johannes Gutenberg‚ born of Mainz‚ Germany around 1400 (Childress‚ 2008). Johannes began his work with the printing press around 1430 and developed his first prototype somewhere around the mid-15th century. As with most inventions‚ Gutenberg’s press had precedents in history
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p.2 9/17 3D Printing 3D printing is a technology that lets you take a digital file and turn it into a physical object. You can take almost anything and create it. Everything that is printed‚ is protected by copyright. You take a 3D digital file and just with the click of a button you can create it. You can download a 3D file offline‚ or create one yourself. The software makes it layer by layer. You can literally print out anything you can possibly think of. They’re being made so that they’re
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3D Printing 3D printing[1] is a process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model. A materials printer usually performs 3D printing processes using digital technology. The first working 3D printer was created in 1984 by Chuck Hull of 3D Systems Corp.[3] Since the start of the 21st century there has been a large growth in the sales of these machines‚ and their price has dropped substantially. The 3D printing technology is used for both prototyping and distributed
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Consequence of the Printing Press? Numerous people from the Renaissance time tried to make a living on their own by painting and writing books. Although it seemed very hard to spread their ideas around the world‚ by 1444 their worries began to shrink. A man from Germany named Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press‚ which made possible for people to have copies of books and letters in a much lesser time. What was the great outcome of the printing press? The efficiency of the printing press allowed
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ideal for a custom design because the design is printed in sublimating ink on sublimated paper which is then heated and allows for the pattern transfer. Using this technique also allows for a lot more of a color selection and allows colors to overlap better. While the heat press allows more colors and unique designs it is very time consuming due to the heating time and the extensive cooling time. This makes the heat press a very useless way if a very large order is placed The heat press can also be
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