Printing began in 618* in China when the T'ang Dynasty used ink on carved wooden blocks to make multiple transfers of image to paper.
Printing began in 618* in China when the T'ang Dynasty used ink on carved wooden blocks to make multiple transfers of image to paper.
Canadian printer Chris Landry, MD of Colourfast in Ontario, has compiled an interactive storymap that examines the history of print technology throughout the next 1400 years as printing pioneers made small steps that all contributed to the print technology we take for granted today.
View the storymap here.
* Print21 magazine editor Andy McCourt commented: "I did advise Chris that Aboriginals were probably the first printers 30,000 years ago when they used hands and boomerangs as stencils to spray an ochre mix from their mouths onto rock walls. Early inkjet?"