HISTORY OF PRINTING

The history of printing begins in a parallel course with that of moveable type. Although Johann Gutenberg, a goldsmith from Mainz, Germany (c. 1400:c. 1468), is regarded as having invented both moveable type and the printing press, the former dates back to eleventh-century China, and the latter to eighth-century Japan and ninth-century China. Between 1058 and 1061, Pi Sheng used clay, and later tin, to create type. The nature of the Chinese language (the lack of a true alphabet and the presence of more than 40,000 characters) made the invention and practical use of moveable type a near impossibility. Pi Sheng's type was not widely used, and didn't catch on in the East until a couple hundred years later. Metal type was invented in 1403 in Korea, primarily due to the dearth of hardwood necessary to create workable blocks of type, and was quickly endorsed and adopted by the Korean emperor T'ai Tsung as an aid to government and the preservation of civilization. 

WHAT IS PRINTING?

DEFINITION 1: Printing is a process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template.
                         2 :Printing is Process of Transferring an inked image from its carrier unto a substrate under impression.

TYPES OF PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES
1.Letterpress
2. Offset Lithography

3.Gravure
4.flexography
5.screen printing
6.Digital Printing