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28
Oct
Pat Klarecki Receives the 2024 John Berthelsen Award
Pittsburgh, PA – October 28, 2024 — The Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF), a nonprofit organization working to build the future workforce of the graphic communications […]
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7
Aug
History of Printing Timeline: 1971 – 2019
Source – printinghistory.org/timeline/ 1971 Project Gutenberg, oldest digital library of public domain books launched. 1972 Thermal printing developed. A New Introduction to Bibliography by Philip Gaskell. […]
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15
Jul
History of Printing Timeline: 1931 – 1970
Source – printinghistory.org/timeline/ 1931 Albert Skira publishes his first livre de peintre, Ovid’s Metamorphoses with etchings by Pablo Picasso in Lausanne, Switzerland. 1932 Times New Roman typeface debuted […]
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18
Jun
History of Printing Timeline: 1881 – 1930
Source – printinghistory.org/timeline/ 1881 Halftone process patented by Frederic Ives. Chandler & Price, a printing equipment maufacturer, founded in Cleveland, Ohio. Production ceased in […]
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28
May
History of Printing Timeline: 1827 – 1880
Source – printinghistory.org/timeline/ 1827 John B. Russwurm establishes Freedom’s Journal, first African-American newspaper in New York. Means for mass-producing wood type invented by Darius Wells […]
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6
May
History of Printing Timeline: 1751 – 1826
Source – printinghistory.org/timeline/ 1751 Diderot’s Encyclopédie published in France. 1752 Canada’s first newspaper the Halifax Gazette in Nova Scotia. 1755 A Dictionary of the English […]
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23
Apr
History of Printing Timeline: 1500 -1750
Source – printinghistory.org/timeline/ 1501 Italic type and small format books introduced by Aldus Manutius in Venice. 1514 Book of Hours printed in Arabic types in […]
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27
Mar
History of Printing Timeline: circa 3100 BCE – 1499
Source – printinghistory.org/timeline/ circa 3100 BCE Cuneiform, one of the earliest known writing systems developed in Sumer (modern day Iraq). Wedge-shaped marks were made on […]
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