This will be my last brainstorm on the matter. However, I do believe that the choice of the name should be left up to just a few. Naming by commitee doesn't seem to be working.
Here's some cool brainstorm ideas off of Wikipedia:
Xylography, an early form of wood engraving, was first seen in China in the 1st century. It is the oldest known engraving technique. The wood of a pear tree is cut with the grain. A sharp tool such as a chisel is used to create a relief for the ink to be laid in. This is called the blackline method. Bois de fil gave way to bois de bout. Box wood is favored instead. In this method, cubes are instead cut against the grain and then pasted together and polished smooth. Designs are executed in as a negative so that it will be correct in printing. A separate plate is used for each color. Wohlgemuth, his student Dürer, Laurens, Soulas, Chièze, Miro, Derain, Lorjou and others have used this technique.
A Scriptorium was a room or building, usually within a Christian monastery where, during medieval times, manuscripts were written. Before the introduction of moveable type for printing, anything written had to be written down by hand since time immemorial. Scriptoria were organized during the Middle Ages to meet the demand and need in Western societies for written works.
Typesetting (WebTypeSetting?) involves the presentation of textual material in an aesthetic form on paper or some other media. Before the development of such late 20th century innovations as dot matrix and inkjet printers, printed material was produced in print shops.
In spite of centuries of innovation, the principle of printing remains the same: either a particular part of the page is marked with ink, or it is not. This has remained true at the microscopic level even for halftone and four-color printing. Typesetting is the technology of deciding which parts of the paper should be marked, and printing is the technology of making the marks. However, the two are not rigidly separated: for example, ink flows during the printing process, and type design has to take into account the dynamics of ink on paper.
With early printing presses, individual letters and characters were on blocks (usually of metal, sometimes of wood), which would be assembled for each page.
The setting of individual letters was rendered obsolete by hot-metal setting machines such as the Linotype machine
Lithography as a manual process is based on the repulsion of oil and water. The image is placed on the surface with an oil-based medium; acid is then used to 'burn' the oil into the surface. When printing, the surface is covered in water, which remains on the non-oily surface and avoids the oily parts; a roller can then apply an oil-based ink that adheres only to the oily portion of the surface.
Flexography, normally abbreviated to flexo, is a method of printing most commonly used for packaging.
A flexo print is achieved by creating a mirrored master of the required image as a 3D relief in a rubber or polymer material - compare with children's potato printing. A measured amount of ink is deposited upon the surface of the printing plate (or printing cylinder) using an anilox roll. The print surface then rotates, contacting the print material which transfers the ink.
Flexo is so named because it was originally used as a method of printing onto corrugated cardboard which has a very uneven surface. It is required that the printing plate surface maintain contact with the cardboard, which it does by being a flexible. Also unprinted high points on the cardboard must not get printed by ink remnants not on the plate surface, which is achieved by ensuring a sufficient depth for the non-print areas of the plate.
In printing, anilox is a method used to provide a measured amount of ink to a flexo printing plate.
An anilox roll is a hard cylinder whose surface contains millions of very fine dimples (cells). The roll is immersed in a bath of ink and a 'doctor blade' is used to scrape excess ink from the roll surface leaving just the measured amount of ink in the cells. The roll then rotates to contact the flexo plate which receives the ink from the cells for transfer to the print material.
Anilox rolls were originally made using a diamond pecking machine, but modern rolls are laser engraved.
George E. Clymer (1752-1834) was the inventor of the Columbian Printing Press.
He was born in Philadelphia, USA, and invented his printing press in 1813. Because there seemed little interest in his invention in the United States, he left for England in 1817 and started to manufacture his press there. However, he emphasised the origin of the idea by naming it "Columbian", Columbia being a poetic name for the United States.
The press itself is aesthetically interesting. To symbolise the production of newspapers, the press's frame is decorated with a winged caduceus surrounded by snakes; the rod of Mercury, the messenger of the Gods in Greek mythology; dolphins as symbols of wisdom. The counterweight is in the form of a white-headed eagle, the heraldic beast of the USA - a further reminder of the idea's origin. The eagle holds in its claws the cornucopia or horn of plenty, also the olive branch, a symbol of peace. The Press is often affectionately referred to as "The Eagle".
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