HISTORY OF PUBLISHING

By: Mr. ERIC M. DE GUZMAN

The Prehistoric Era

Assyrian and Babylonian Period

CUNEIFORM FORM OF WRITINGPicture-form of

writing it was started 30 BC. These symbols

wwere based on animals, plant or

object.

Egyptian’s Contribution

HIEROGLYPHICS

Another kind of writing used y the people of

Nile.They also

invented paper which was made from the pith of

the papyrus plant.

Phoenician Alphabet

THIS IS WHERE OUR PRESENT

ALPHABET CAME FROM.

ALPHABETA sentence form of graph, or

characters, used to present the phonemic structure of a

language.

CHINESE CONTRIBUTION

Block PrintingA CARVED

WOODEN BLOCK THAT USES INK THAT SPREADS

EVENLY ON METAL OR

WOOD AND TRANSFERS EVENLY ON

PAPER.

CHINESE CONTRIBUTION

TS’AI LUN invented paper, he devised a

way of floating in water the fibers from tree barks, old rags

and hemp waste and allow the fibers to

settle and then drying them into a

sheet.

PUBLISHING TECHNIQUES THROUGH THE YEARS

An activity that involves a selection of preparation and marketing of printed matter

It refers to the preparation and distribution of written materials

for public use.It involves writing, paper and

printing.

What is PUBLISHING?

JOHANNE GUTENBERG

Publishing Techniques Through the Years

Born in Mainz GermanyInventor of “The Movable Type”- first cast movable pieces of type.

JOHANNE GUTENBERG

The MovableType

JOHANNE GUTENBERG’S CONTRIBUTION

An artist's visualization of Johannes Gutenberg in his workshop, showing his

first proof sheet.

JOHANNE GUTENBERG’S CONTRIBUTION

Two-page spread from Johannes Gutenberg's 42-line Bible, c. 1450–55.

About 1620 Willem Janszoon Blaeu in Amsterdam added a counterweight to the pressure bar in order to make the platen rise automatically; this was the so-called Dutch press, a copy of which was to be the first press introduced into North America, by Stephen Daye at Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1639.

EMERGENCE OF MODERN PRINTING

In 1811 Koenig and an associate, Andreas Bauer, in another approach to the rotary principle, designed a cylinder as a platen bearing the sheet of paper and pressing it against the type form placed on a flatbed that moved to and fro. The rotation of the cylinder was linked to the forward movement of the bed but was disengaged when the bed moved back to go under the inking rollers.

KOENIG'S MECHANICAL PRESS- THE FIRST CYLINDER PRESS

The first stop-cylinder printing machine

In 1818 Koenig and Bauer designed a double press in which a sheet of paper printed on one side under one of the cylinders passed to the other cylinder, to be printed on the other side. This was called a perfecting machine. In 1824 William Church added grippers to the cylinder to pick up, hold, and then automatically release the sheet of paper.

PERFECTING MACHINE

In 1844 Richard Hoe in the United States patented his type revolving press, the first rotary to be based on this principle. It consisted of a cylinder of large diameter, bearing columns of type bracketed together on its outer surface; pressure was provided by several small cylinders, each of which was fed sheets of paper by hand.

RICHARD HOE

Printing is being revolutionized by advances in technology,

particularly in the fields of automation, electronics and

computers. The combination of computer technology and

photocomposition has revolutionized typesetting

machines

NEW TECHNOLOGIES

TYPESETTING - refers to the asembly of letters into words, and words into lines, in a form suitable for multiple reproduction by one of the printing method.

NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Machines that can read copy typed by authors or journalists and pass information on via computer to a photocomposing machine have been developed. Computers can store not only text but also illustrations in digital form.

NEW TECHNOLOGIES

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