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Evolution of Printer - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Printing using wooden matrices
        
        Engraved inked and pressed onto a sheet of paper
  - - - Invented movable clay type
        
        Major drawback:Break easily
    - - Used stronger wooden type
    - - Technique was punch
        
        A steel parallelepiped whose head was engraved in relief and back to front with a character,a number,letter or punctuation mark
        
        Three major inovations
        
        Usage of oil based ink
        
        Type:made from alloy
        
        Invented first printing press
    - - In US
        
        Richard March Hoe
        
        Invented first rotary press
        
        Hand-fed with single sheet
        
        William Bullock
        
        Invented press fed by a paper roll
        
        Images to be printed were curved around rotating cylinders
      - Fourth stage: Offset printing
        
        1875
        
        Robert Barcley invented offset press for printing on metal
        
        1904
        
        Ira Washington Rubel
        
        Adapted technology for paper
        
        Advantages of offset printing
        
        Generates sharp and clean image
        
        High quality printing on any type of paper
        
        Disadvantage of offset printing
        
        Bulky and requires alot of maintenance
        
        Fifth stage:Linotype machine
        
        1885
        
        German inventor : Ottman Mergenthaler
        
        Developed linotype
        
        Which is a typesetting machine
        
        Advantages of linotype
        
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        6th stage :laser printer
        
        1971
        
        Xerox corporation developed laser technology
        
        In a laser printer, content to be printed is generated by electronic processes and printed directly on paper
        
        Disadvantages of first laser printers
        
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        Last stage: 3D printing
        
        Developed in 1983 when Chuck Hall used UV rays to harden varnishes
        
        1982
        
        Canon released first desktop laser printing
        
        Drawback :High cost and only few can afford one
        
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