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The beginning of printing.
Before the printing press was invented, scribes handwrote books. ... With about twenty years, William Caxton, another historical printing icon, set up his press in Westminster, England. ...
For us who have grown up with television, radio, magazines, books, movies, faxes and networked computer communications it is difficult to describe just how much of a revolution printing was. ... Scribes fought against the introduction of printing, because it could cost them their livelihoods, and religious organizations sought to control what was printed. ...
Amazingly, the printing press and the science of typeface cutting had only minor refinements from the late 1600s to the late 1800s. Towards the end of this period, the industrial revolution brought major innovations in printing technology. Rotary steam presses replaced hand-operated ones, doing the same job in less than one fifth of the time of the time, and photo-engraving took over from handmade printing plates. ...
With the coming of the industrial revolution, the presses became bigger and faster, colour was introduced, newspapers became the norm, magazines provided addition material of interest and education benefited from the mass printing of text books. During this era the industry employed an enormous of people who had usually passed through a printing apprenticeship. These included compositors who assembled the typeface to create pages of text, machine minders who operated the huge printing press, bookbinders who assembled books, readers, who would scan the print output prior to actual production to look for spelling and grammar mistakes.
With the onset of computers, printing was about to undergo a massive change and many of the above jobs were about to disappear. ...
Twenty years ago, newspapers were still being published with a printing press. ...
By the 1990s, desktop publishing was being taken for granted, and publishing had become an independent process for the first time since the earliest days of the printing press.
Approximate Word count = 1511
Approximate Pages = 6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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