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James Franklin (February 4, 1697 in Boston – February 4, 1735 in Newport, Rhode Island) was an early American printer, publisher and author of newspapers and almanacs in the American colonies. Franklin published the New England Courant, one of the oldest and the first truly independent American newspapers, and the short lived Rhode Island ...
Linotype machine. The Linotype machine ( / ˈlaɪnətaɪp / LYNE-ə-type) is a "line casting" machine used in printing which is manufactured and sold by the former Mergenthaler Linotype Company and related companies.[ 1] It was a hot metal typesetting system that cast lines of metal type for one-time use.
Rotary press: 1843: Hectograph: 1860: Offset printing: 1875: Hot metal typesetting: ... The Photostat machine, ... Rhode Island, was formed. By 1912, Photostat brand ...
Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water , the offset technique employs a flat ( planographic ) image carrier.
Heidelberg "Windmill" platen press, 1950s vintage. By cooperating with Ricoh in 2011 Heidelberg entered a global distribution agreement contract to sell and support the Japanese company's latest production digital colour press, alongside their extensive offset press portfolio. [3] Like much of the printing industry, Heidelberg has suffered and ...
John Carter (July 21, 1745 – August 19, 1814) was an early American printer, newspaper publisher, and postmaster of Providence, Rhode Island. Carter entered the printing profession as an apprentice of Benjamin Franklin while living in Philadelphia. After he entered into a partnership and ran The Providence Gazette, which he eventually ...
v. t. e. Chromolithography is a method for making multi-colour prints. This type of colour printing stemmed from the process of lithography, [ 1] and includes all types of lithography that are printed in colour. [citation needed] When chromolithography is used to reproduce photographs, the term photochrome is frequently used.
The company was founded in 1883 [ 1] in Chicago as a lumber company by Albert Blake Dick (1856 – 1934). It soon expanded into office supplies and, after licensing key autographic printing patents from Thomas Edison, became the world's largest manufacturer of mimeograph equipment (Albert Dick coined the word "mimeograph"). [ 3]