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Print

¿What is the print?Printing is an industrial method of reproduction of texts and images on paper or similar material, which is to implement a ink, generally oily, on a metal parts, called types, for transfer to the role by pressure. Although began as a method artisanal, was a process very fast to their times

The Romans had stamps printed inscriptions on objects of clay around the year 430 B.C. and the 440 A. C. It is said that between 1041 and 1048, Bì Shēng invented ,in China, where there was already a type of rice paper, the first system of printing of types mobiles, on the basis of complex pieces of porcelain in which they were the Chinese characters; this was a complex procedure by the vast amount of characters that were needed for the Chinese script.

Invention of Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg adopted an old factory of fabrics like the building where he had his printing. Gutenberg gambled to which was able to make to the time, a copy of the Bible in less than half the time of what it took to copy a the fastest of all monks copyists of the Muslim world and that they might not be different in all of the handwritten by them.

 

Asked for money to a

lender jew, Juan Fust, and

began his challenge without

being aware of what his

invention would represent for

the future of all mankind.

Instead of using the usual

slatted wood, which were by

the use, compiled molds in

wood in each of the alphabet

letters and subsequently filled

the molds with iron, creating

the first "types mobile".

He had to make

several models of the

same letters that

coincide all among

themselves: in total,

more than 150

"types", to imitate the

writing of a

manuscript. He had to

unite one by one the

letters to be held in

an ingenious support,

much faster than that

recorded in wood and

considerably more

resistant to use. 

What Gutenberg not

calculated well was

the time that it would

take to launch its new

invention, so that

before the end of the

work was left without

money. Again, he

requested a new credit to Juan Fust

and, before the distrust of the lender,

offered him form a

society. Juan Fust

accepted the proposal and delegated the monitoring of the

work of Gutenberg his

nephew, Peter Schöffer, who was put

to work side by side

with him while guarding the reversal

of his uncle.

After two years of work, Gutenberg

returned to stay without money.

Was close to end the 150 Bibles

that had been proposed, but John

Fust did not want expand credit

and gave up the past, staying with

the business and putting the front

of his nephew, proficient already in

the arts of the new impression as a

partner-apprentice of Gutenberg.

Gutenberg came out of his printing ruined and account that he was hosted by the bishop of the city, the only one who recognized her work until his death after a few years.

Gutenberg, next to his

friend Fust edited some

booklets and bullae of

indulgence and in

particular, the monument

to the printing primitive,

the Bible of the 42 lines,

in two volumes of double

folio, of 324 and 319

pages respectively, with

blank spaces for after

painting to hand the

letters chapter, the

allegories and vignettes

that out colorfully each

one of the pages of the

Bible. 

The art typographical evolved and fail to create masterpieces in training and structures of books and special editions printed. Currently the printing techniques in quality and volume have improved dramatically, some through computer, forgetting the art typographical that many printers of the world are reluctant to change.

ConclusionFew inventions have had an influence on the human being as the creation of the printing, that ancient art that, if coupled by a work in work of typographer and to the writings of a good author, provides a work of art complete, ready to move in beauty literary and aesthetic typesetting the reader, the order first and last of the printing press.

 

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