PRINT MEDIA

3,000 BC and Earlier

Mesopotamians

cylinder seals

images onto clay tablets

Second Century AD

Ts’ai Lun ccto inventing paper

600 AD Tang Dynasty

Woodblock painting

Oldest known: Buddhist scripture 684 AD

Eleventh Century

Pi-Sheng created movable type (type characters)

Twelfth Century

Papermaking in Europe

Thirteen Century

TC made in bronze developed in C, J, K

Selected Teachings of Buddhist Sages and Seon Masters

Fifteenth Century

Woodcut - carved on wood

14 — 36

Johannes Gutenberg

Printing press

14 — 50

J.G printed the bible (1282 pg) Latin

14 — 76

William Caxton

Netherlands — first printing press: Westminster

Sixteenth Century

Chiaroscuro woodcut - two or more blocks printed in dif colors

15 — 07

Lucas Cranach invented Chiaroscuro woodcut

Seventeenth Century

Facsimile - true to the orig source as possible

16 — 40

Paris, Imprimerie Royale du Louvre bcs of Richelieu

16 — 42

Ludwig von Siegen invents mezzotint

mezzotint - little dots (rocker)

16 — 90

American paper mill

17 — 10

Jakob Christof Le Blon

Engraving several colors

foundation for modern color printing

17 — 31

The Gentleman’s Magazine

Uninterrupted till 1922

17 — 32

Benjamin Franklin

Pennsylvania Gazette

Poor Richard’s Almanac (MF)

17 — 96

Alois Senefelder

lithography - theatrical works

18 — 00

Charles Stanhope iron framed press

18 — 37

Godefroy Engelmann

patent for chromolithography - used for paintings

19 — 15

Hallmark (1910) Christmas Card

19 — 38

Xerography - Chester Carlson

19 — 67

IBSN - int book standard number