printing history timeline

Again sourced from the net, dates of advances of printing technology for a timeline, still need some more recent dates, (digital print?)



1452: In Europe, metal plates are first used in printing. Gutenberg begins printing the Bible which he finishes in 1456.
1457: First color printing by Fust and Schoeffer.
1465: Drypoint engravings invented by Germans.
1476: William Caxton begins using a Gutenberg printing press in England.
1477: Intaglio is first used for book illustration for a Flemish book called Il Monte Sancto di Dio.
1501: Italic type first used.
1550: Wallpaper introduced in Europe.
1605: First weekly newspaper published in Antwerp.
1660: Mezzotint invented in Germany.
1691: First papermill opened in the American colonies.
1702: Multi-colored engraving invented by German Jakob Le Blon. The first English language daily newspaper is published called the Daily Courant.
1725: In Scotland stereotyping invented by William Ged.
1800: Iron printing presses invented.
1819: Rotary printing press invented by Napier.
1829: Embossed printing invented by Louis Braille.
1841: Type-composing machine invented.
1844: Electrotyping invented.
1846: Cylinder press invented by Richard Hoe. Cylinder press can print 8,000 sheets an hour.
1863: Rotary web-fed letterpress invented by William Bullock.
1865: Web offset press can print on both sides of paper at once.
1886: Linotype composing machineinvented by Ottmar Mergenthaler.
1870: Paper is now mass-manufactured from wood pulp.
1878: Photogravure printing invented by Karl Klic.
1890: Mimeograph machine introduced.
1891: Printing presses can now print and fold 90,000 4-page papers an hour. Diazotype invented (print photographs on fabric).
1892: 4-color rotary press invented.
1904: Offset lithography becomes common. The first comic book is published.
1907: Commercial silk screening invented.
1947: Phototypesetting made practical