Printing Research history

In 1837 Godefroy Engelmann is awarded a patent on chromolithography, a method for printing in color using lithography.

In 1890 Bibby, Baron and Sons build the first flexographic press.

In 1907 the Englishman Samuel Simon is awarded a patent for the process of using silk fabric as a printing screen.

Earlier in 1931 German publisher Albatross Books had already tried to market a series of lower-priced books with a paper cover and glue binding.

The picture below shows it being demonstrated to German finance minister Ludwig Erhard at the first drupa trade show in 1951.

In 1967 the ISBN or International Standard Book Number started.

Printing History was founded in 1979; since then it has been edited by Susan Otis Thompson, Anna Lou Ashby, Renee I. Weber, and David Pankow.

At drupa 1986 MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG introduces its LITHOMAN commercial web offset printing press.

In 1992 Australia is the first country to use polymer banknotes for general circulation.

Thompson, Wendy. “Woodcut Book Illustration in Renaissance Italy: Florence in the 1490s.” (October 2004)

Printing History New Series began in 2007 under the editorship of William S. Peterson, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, former editor of Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and the author of books about the Kelmscott Press and Daniel Berkeley Updike.