{"id":595,"date":"2025-11-22T02:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/ergenlermatbaa.com.tr_WS\/?page_id=595"},"modified":"2026-01-04T17:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:52:42","slug":"history-of-printing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ergenlermatbaa.com.tr\/en\/history-of-printing","title":{"rendered":"History of Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History of Printing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>history of printing<\/strong>: It is a field of history that describes the emergence of the printing press, its development and its changes over time. Below, historically important information is provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>4th Millennium<\/strong><\/strong> <strong><strong>BC<\/strong>:<\/strong> Seal and stamp culture in Mesopotamia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>593 AD<\/strong>: Printing with woodblock carving techniques in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>700 AD<\/strong>: The first printed newspaper was published in Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9th Century AD<\/strong>: The first books were produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>11th Century AD<\/strong>: Chinese inventor Pi Sheng developed a movable type system using porcelain letters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1450 AD<\/strong>: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press with movable metal type in Europe, initiating the concept of mass production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1843 AD<\/strong>: The first rotary printing press was invented by Richard March Hoe. This machine allowed for high-speed, continuous printing on paper rolls using a rotary system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1810 AD<\/strong>: German inventor Friedrich Koenig developed the first steam-powered printing press in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1904 AD<\/strong>: Offset printing technology was invented by American Ira Washington Rubel. This technology involves transferring the print from a rubber cylinder to paper, rather than directly from the plate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1938 AD<\/strong>: The foundation of digital printing began with Chester Floyd Carlson&#8217;s invention of electrophotography (xerography), a photocopying technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1906 AD<\/strong>: Color printing and the four-color (CMYK) system<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1960s AD<\/strong>: The first computer-assisted printing applications, phototypesetting and electronic typesetting systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1969 AD<\/strong>: Laser printer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1981 AD<\/strong>: 3D printing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1982 AD<\/strong>: The first electronically printable computer file format: EPS (Encapsulated PostScript).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"m-prevent-text-selection wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>21st Century AD<\/strong>: Printing with nanoparticles instead of ink and toner, WebP computer file format and electronic circuit board printing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of Printing The history of printing: It is a field of history that describes the emergence of the printing press, its development and its changes over time. Below, historically important information is provided. 4th Millennium BC: Seal and stamp culture in Mesopotamia 593 AD: Printing with woodblock carving techniques in China. 700 AD: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-595","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ergenlermatbaa.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ergenlermatbaa.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ergenlermatbaa.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ergenlermatbaa.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ergenlermatbaa.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/ergenlermatbaa.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/ergenlermatbaa.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/595\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ergenlermatbaa.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}