History of printing

A history of printing and the printed word: the challenges of the printed word

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Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Bauer

250 years ago, Friedrich Koenig, forerunner of industrial printing, was born

The Musée et Atelier de l'imprimerie de Bordeaux closes but saves its heritage

The Montgolfier saga: centuries of paper-making innovation

Paul Dupont, an innovative 19th-century Parisian printer

Le Démocrate de l'Aisne, the old-fashioned 100% lead newspaper

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Flan de clicherie, an 18th-century recipe

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The diary, an artilleryman's invention revisited by a doctor

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The history of paper formats

What did the very first greeting card in the world look like?

The book industry: the resilience of paper in the face of the digital revolution

Digital and print advertising: challenges and prospects

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Italics, that old typeface that does everything to attract attention

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Paper's resilience in the face of the digital revolution: focus on three key print sectors

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Lorem Ipsum, the secret language of graphic designers

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A book format that has finally put publishers in his pocket

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From the punctus interrogativus to the printers of the 16th century: the history of the question mark

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Cromalin: from color validation to the digital revolution

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Jikji, the oldest book printed and preserved to date is Korean

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The history of the ampersand or how an abbreviation becomes an essential character

School learning through typography with the Frenet method

Printing through the ages at the Charmont workshop-museum

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Johannes Gutenberg honored by Google

Winkler press is looking for a buyer

Heidelberg Typographic Press

The European Gutenberg Space wants to federate the book and printing trades

A paper mill wins the heritage lottery

Intergraphic's large collection of presses and printing equipment (67)

Jewels of the printing industry soon to be digitized