Lithographic Platemaking in Printing Technology:Yesterday,Today & Tomorrow.?
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What I usally see with Technology is although we do take a step foward we usally take a step back too. You lose some of the "Quick fixes" that you were used to, but using DTP (Direct to Plate) technology definatly has it's advantages.\nMuch quicker, less manpower, cheaper, better quaility to name a few... but if that machine goes down your shop is at a standstill! Also if you need to make a change on the printed product, it sometimes can take longer with DTP then just making a piece of film and stripping it in. DTP is here to stay, for now anyways... as for the future? No idea.
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The typesetting I know about is obsolete by now.  \n\nAt some point in printing history, it was the old method of literally gathering the metal letters and placing them on a wooden frame to make up the written word. Printing was done by placing a blank piece of paper over the layout of the letters and pressing the paper onto the inked letters(thus the term printing press).  This was improved upon over the decades to the point that a man could type out whatever he needed and the machine set the letters up into a plate. That plate printed out the pages. But a lot of this stuff is quite obsolete now, but still possible if the equipment is at hand.\n\nWith the use of computer systems, everyone now can have their own "printing press".
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I would say printing in the form of history books, biographies and other educational printing.\n\nPrinting is one of the oldest technologies and is rapidly becoming passe.
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Its an historic hang on to the times when output was to line printers.\n\nLine printers printed on a continuous strip of paper that had perforations after every page. Form feed caused them to feed to the next perforation - ie the top of the next page or form.
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Gallium based semi-conductor right now is too expensive to deploy. \n\nIf you want completely out of the left field, I'd go for optical processing.
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Almost any.\n\nHP, Lexmark, Epson, Canon, ...........
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These days, blueprints are apt to be digital. Time was, technical drawings were done in pencil or ink on large sheets of paper and copied on ammonia process machines that produced a blue-on-white print.
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The first lithographic offset printing press was created in England around 1875 and was designed for printing on metal. The offset cylinder was covered with specially treated cardboard that transferred the printed image from the litho stone to the surface of the metal. About five years later, the cardboard covering of the offset cylinder was changed to rubber, which is still the most commonly used material.\n\nThe first person to use an offset press to print on paper was probably American Ira Washington Rubel in 1903. He got the idea accidentally by noticing that whenever a sheet of paper was not fed into his lithographic press during operation, the stone printed its image to the rubber-covered impression cylinder, and the next impression had an image on both sides: direct litho on the front and an image from the rubber blanket on the back. Rubel then noticed that the image on the back of the sheet was much sharper and clearer than the direct litho image because the soft rubber was able to press the image onto the paper better than the hard stone. He soon decided to build a press which printed every image from the plate to the blanket and then to the paper. Brothers Charles and Albert Harris independently observed this process at about the same time and developed an offset press for the Harris Automatic Press Company soon after.
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However fast you think it is, once we reach that speed you can be sure that there will be a way to make it faster still!\n\nIn 1965 Gordon E. Moore (a co-founder of Intel) stated:\n\n"The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year ... Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years. That means by 1975, the number of components per integrated circuit for minimum cost will be 65,000. I believe that such a large circuit can be built on a single wafer."\n\nThis has become known as "Moores Law", which roughly states that there should be a doubling in the complexity of a chips structure every 2 years.\n\nBy and large, this has held true from 1965 to today, and with IBMs announcement that they can now use deep-ultraviolet optical lithography to print circuitry at just 29.9 nm wide it is safe to say that this law will be upheld for the next few years at least.
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ref\n\nhttp://www.cem.msu.edu/~reusch/VirtualText/polymers.htm
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Xerox is from Xeros, god of reproduction/replication...  Which is brilliant, I think.
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Today it is done with high tech scanners and even more high tech photo quality printers. That's the easy part. the hard part is getting the right quality paper because it's almost a cloth material.
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=techtonic+plates&btnG=Google+Search\n\nHope this helps, it will give you all the info you need
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Types of printers?  That's a tough one... Lessee... Not in any particular order...\n\nLaser, Ink Jet (bubble jet), Dot Matrix, Pen (Plotters), Daisy-wheel, Thermal...\n\nThat's all I can think of at the moment. Some of those are obsolete.
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What printer are you useing?
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The first attempt to reproduce the First Photograph was conducted at Helmut Gernsheim's request by the Research Laboratory of the Eastman Kodak Company in Harrow, England, in March of 1952. After three weeks of work utilizing strong side lighting, high contrast film and the identical angular displacement of the camera and enlarger lenses, the lab produced this copyprint. However, because of the sharpness of the lens and the camera's objective nature of precisely copying the texture and unevenness of the plate itself, Gernsheim declared this negative-like version to be a "gross distortion of the original" and forbade its reproduction until 1977.
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Go through this website. It can help you.\n\nhttp://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2689