That paper today is known as the New York Daily News.ġ886: The first linotype – an automatic typesetting machine – is developed. The era of “the penny press” begins.ġ828: Darius Wells introduces a new method of cutting type out of wood and publishes the first catalogue of wood typography.ġ841: The first paperback books are published by Tauchnitz Verlag in Germany.ġ856: The first paper folding machine is introduced.ġ879: The first color images are printed in newspapers using a process known as Benday – adding color in small dots to form shades or tints.ġ880: The first halftone photo – created by breaking up a photograph into small dots, which can be easily printed – is printed in the New York Daily Graphic. Today, it’s the world’s oldest printing and publishing house.ġ604: The first newspaper is published in Strasbourg, Germany: Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien.ġ611: The first edition of the King James Bible is published.ġ623: William Shakespeare’s “Comedies, Histories & Tragedies” is published.ġ639: “The Bay Psalm Book” becomes the first book to be printed in the American colonies, in Cambridge, Mass.ġ690: The first newspaper is published in the American colonies, in Boston: Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick.ġ698: The first public library in the American colonies opens in Charleston, S.C.ġ725: Jacob Chritoph Le Blon first describes a three-color (red-yellow-blue) printing process.ġ733: Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia begins publishing Poor Richard’s Almanack.ġ735: New York publisher John Peter Zenger is acquitted of libel by a colonial court, setting legal standards for libel.ġ755: “A Dictionary of the English Language” is published by Samuel Johnson.ġ780: A system for measuring the size of typography using “points” – based on a pre-metric French inch – is developed by Francois-Ambrose Didot.ġ790: William Nicholson of London patents the cylindrical printing press.ġ814: The first steampowered cylindrical printing press, built by Frederick Koenig and Conrad Bauer, is installed at The Times of London.ġ827: The New York Sun becomes the first mass-produced newspaper. This becomes important in the age of discovery.ġ584: The Cambridge University Press begins operating. Three years later, he’ll set up his own print shop in England.ġ476: Intaglio printing – in which ink is held in a sunken area on a printing plate, rather than on a raised area – is first used for book illustrations.ġ495: Etching – in which sunken areas for intaglio printing are created by acid or some other chemical process – is first used.ġ501: Italic type is introduced by Aldus Manutius in Venice, Italy.ġ529: Geoffroy Tory in Paris publishes “Chamfleury,” which promotes grammar, punctuation and greater care in the choice of letterforms – what we today call typography.ġ538: Juan Pablos becomes the first printer in North America when he begins operating in Mexico City.ġ563: Printing in France without permission of the king is outlawed, under penalty of death.ġ569: Gerardus Mercator publishes a map of the world.
In 1452, he’ll begin printing 180 copies of the entire Bible.ġ473: William Caxton prints the first book in English. This allows printers to set up a page to be printed and then reuse those elements to build more pages.ġ439: Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz, Germany, develops his printing press. By 1459, Gutenberg was bankrupt.ġ05 BC: Paper is first created by Ts’ai Lun of China.ħ94 AD: The first paper mill is built in Baghdad, in what is now Iraq.ĩ32: Chinese printers begin using wood block printing to create books: Words and drawings are carved in reverse on wood blocks, which are then smeared with ink and pressed against paper.ġ041: Movable type made of baked clay is invented, also in China.
He would print 180 copies of a 1,300-page edition of the Bible by 1454, to great acclaim.īut despite its importance to us today, his venture into printing wasn’t financially successful. The result of all this was that Gutenberg could print books in a fraction of the time it would take to copy them by hand – which was the way it was typically done at the time. That’s the big screw-shaped object you see at the left of the illustration above. A better paper-flattener: Gutenberg used a press that was typically used to press grapes for wine and olives for oil.
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