Thursday, February 26th, 2009
“Broadcasting live from Miami Beach, it’s The Jackie Gleason Show.” Well, no, actually, it’s the 34th Annual Graphics of the Americas show, coming from the Miami Beach Convention Center. As I write this early on Thursday morning, the show has yet to officially open, but the whole shebang kicked off ...Monday, January 5th, 2009
Those of us not old enough to have seen what the industry was like in the years immediately after World War II can get a fascinating glimpse in Printing, a vocational short subject released in 1947 for the “Your Life Work” series and preserved for posterity at YouTube. Full of scenes ...Friday, August 8th, 2008
On August 8, 1876 Thomas Edison received US patent 180,857 for "Improvement in Autographic Printing" (Link to USPTO Patent Database Page or PDF of full patent). This technology later became widely known as the mimeograph after AB Dick Company licensed the technology from Edison as noted in this page in ...Thursday, July 17th, 2008
At drupa Frank Romano gave WhatTheyThink a video on the history of printing he created with his students a few years back. In the video, Frank walks you through major milestones in the history of printing. From Johann Gutenberg to papyrus to important contributors in the development of type ...Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
I don’t know if editors are more prone to pack-rat behavior than other people, but pack-rattitude has to be the reason that this editor still has in his possession an expo CD-ROM from the Seybold Seminars San Francisco Conference in 1996. It turned up by accident the other day in a ...Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Kodak's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Antonio Perez penned an opinion article for today's USA Today reminding us not to forget our founding printers: John Dunlap of Philadelphia and Mary Katherine Goddard of Baltimore. The two are responsible for printing the first copies of the Declaration of Independence. In his ...Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
RIT Professor Emeritus Michael L. Kleper sent a note on a documentary video from the BBC that chronicles the invention of the Gutenberg Press. Michael writes: A wonderful documentary video from the BBC. Stephen Fry travels to France and Germany on the trail of Johannes Gutenberg, and sets about reconstructing a replica ...
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