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| Advances in Print Technology: What about?
A number of dramatic technological innovations have been added
greatly to deal with the character of printing process. Linotype
is a method of creating movable type by machine instead of by
hand and was introduced in 1884 which marked a significant leap
in production speed.
The typewriter made the production and "look" of standardized
print much more widely accessible. The process of setting type
continued to go through transformations with the development of
photo-mechanical composition, cathode ray tubes and laser
technologies. Also the Xerox machine made a means of broadcast
print documents available to everyone. Wherein Word processing
transformed editing and contributed dramatic new flexibility to
the writing process. Computer printing has already moved through
several stages of innovation, from the first daisy-wheel and dot
matrix "impact" printers to common use of the non-impact
printers: ink-jet, laser and thermal-transfer.
Now with the availability of internet in the world and
interactive multimedia, providing ways of employing the printed
word that add new possibilities to print's role in culture made
it much easier. The printed word is now used for real-time
social interaction and for individualized routing through
interactive documents. It is difficult to gauge the social and
cultural impact of new media without historical distance, but
these innovations will most likely prove to signal another major
transformation in the use, influence and character of human
communication.
Indeed, far way the printing had been very much stable to give a
better service to the people. The immediate effect of the
printing press was to multiply the output and cut the costs of
books. It thus made information available to a much larger
segment of the population who were, of course, eager for
information of any variety. Libraries could now store greater
quantities of information at much lower cost. Printing also
facilitated the dissemination and preservation of knowledge in
standardized form -- this was most important in the advance of
science, technology and scholarship. The printing press
certainly initiated an "information revolution" on par with the
Internet today. Printing could and did spread new ideas quickly
and with greater impact. With the innovation and advancement in
technology sure way printing press is on the go to serve us
better!
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About the author:
Well actually i'm not fun of writing, i dont write at all. i am
not expecting that i will be in this field. But i love to read
books...almost everything interest me. reading is my passion!
but now that i am in an article writer team, writing gives me an
additional thrill in myself...Before i love to read books but
now im also in a writing stuff. I can't say im a good writer but
i am trying to be one.
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