Graduate Students of Kasetsart University
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1.1 Printed Media is an industrial Process for production <strong>of</strong> text and images,<br />
typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is an essential part <strong>of</strong> publishing and<br />
transaction printing.<br />
Printing was first conceived and developed in China. Primitive Woodblock printing<br />
was already in use by the 6th century. The oldest surviving book printed using the more<br />
sophisticated block printing dates from 868 AD (The Diamond Sutra <strong>of</strong> AD 868, a Buddhist<br />
scripture). The movable type printer was invented by Pi Sheng in 1040. The movable type metal<br />
printing press was invented in Korea between 1234 and 1241. By the 12 th and 13 th century many<br />
Arabic and Chinese libraries contained tens <strong>of</strong> thousands <strong>of</strong> printed books.<br />
There is little direct evidence, but it is highly probable that Chinese printing<br />
technology diffused into Europe through trade links that went through India and on through the<br />
Arabic world. Johann Gutenberg, <strong>of</strong> the German city <strong>of</strong> Mainz, developed European printing<br />
technology in 1440. Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer experimented with him at Mainz. Basing the<br />
design <strong>of</strong> his machine on a wine press, Gutenberg developed the use <strong>of</strong> raised and movable type,<br />
and from the start used oil-based inks.<br />
This development <strong>of</strong> the printing press revolutionized the spread <strong>of</strong> knowledge: a<br />
printing press was built in Venice in 1469, and the city had 417 printers by 1500. In 1476, a<br />
printing press was developed in England by William Caxton; in 1539, the Italian Juan Pablos set<br />
up an imported press in Mexico City, Mexico. Stephen Day built the first printing press in North<br />
America at Massachusetts Bay in 1628, and helped establish the Cambridge Press.<br />
In Prints and Visual Communication, William Ivins <strong>of</strong>fers the following concise<br />
history <strong>of</strong> a series <strong>of</strong> rapid innovations in image and type printing at the end <strong>of</strong> the eighteenth<br />
century:<br />
At the end <strong>of</strong> the eighteenth century there were several remarkable innovations in the<br />
graphic techniques and those that were utilized to make their materials. Bewick developed the<br />
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