1. Introduction Production for Graphic Designers

2. Print’s Beginnings
East China

3. Print’s Beginnings
East China
Korea

4. Print’s Beginnings
East China
Korea
Japan

5. Print’s Beginnings Paper invented in China before AD 105 East China
Korea
Japan
Paper invented in China before AD 105

6. Print’s Beginnings Paper invented in China before AD 105
Oldest known book The Diamond Sutra AD 868

7. Printing Press
China by AD 1041

8. China by AD 1041 Printing Press
type was cast from individual pieces of clay that could be reset over and over again

9. Printing Press Korea by AD 1400 China by AD 1041
type was cast from individual pieces of clay that could be reset over and over again
Korea by AD 1400

10. Printing Press Korea by AD 1400 China by AD 1041
type was cast from individual pieces of clay that could be reset over and over again
Korea by AD 1400
type was cast in metal

11. Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg

12. Johannes Gutenberg Printing Press
Credited with the invention of the printing press in the West sometime before 1440
Goldsmith by trade
Saw a market for mass producing books
Gutenberg’s process is the letterpress
In the Middle Ages books were created by hand. Scribes and artist worked together to create one off books.

13. Letterpress
Casting individual letters that could be assembled into works, printed, cleaned, put away and used over again.

14. Linotype and Monotype
Printing became a more industrialized process with the invention of Automatic typesetting machines

15. Linotype and Monotype
Printing became a more industrialized process with the invention of Automatic typesetting machines
Linotype in 1886
Monotype in 1887
Until the beginning of the 20th century it was very difficult to combine type with pictures on the same page.

16. Letterpress vs. Intaglio

17. Letterpress vs. Intaglio
Letterpress is a relief method of printing

18. Letterpress vs. Intaglio
Letterpress is a relief method of printing
A raised surface is inked and pressed against paper

19. Letterpress vs. Intaglio
Letterpress is a relief method of printing
A raised surface is inked and pressed against paper
However throughout the early history almost every method of reproducing images used the intaglio process

20. Letterpress vs. Intaglio
Letterpress is a relief method of printing
A raised surface is inked and pressed against paper
Intaglio is the opposite of relief

21. Letterpress vs. Intaglio
Letterpress is a relief method of printing
A raised surface is inked and pressed against paper
Intaglio is the opposite of relief
Incised lines are printed. A plate is inked, wiped almost clean, the ink that remains in the grooves is drawn out under pressure to form the image on the damped paper

22. Letterpress vs. Intaglio

23. Lithography

24. Lithography
Can easily combine type and pictures

25. Lithography Invented by Alois Senefelder around 1796-99
Can easily combine type and pictures
Invented by Alois Senefelder around

26. Lithography Based on the principal that oil and water do not mix
Can easily combine type and pictures
Invented by Alois Senefelder around
Based on the principal that oil and water do not mix

27. Lithography Neither etching or relief
Can easily combine type and pictures
Invented by Alois Senefelder around
Based on the principal that oil and water do not mix
Neither etching or relief

28. Lithography Is a planographic process –
everything happens on a flat surface

29. Offset Lithography
The image is transferred from store or plate first to a rubber roller and then to the substrate.

30. Photography
Analog or digital is the basis for every print production process used today

31. Photography
Collotype – was the first method used for reproducing photographs but was slow and expensive

32. Photography – Half Tone Screen