Tonsing, Paul Martin.
The power of the press : history and development of printing presses from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / Paul Martin Tonsing. - [1st ed.]. - Fort Worth, Tex. : P&T Pub. Co., [c1998] - 297 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
"A history of printing presses spanning 550 years"--Jacket. Includes index.
The beginning -- The Gutenberg press -- Benjamin Franklin -- The wooden press goes metallic -- The iron hand press -- The bed and platen press -- Koenig and the cylinder press -- Cylinder presses -- The cylinder press goes automatic -- The type revolving press -- The platen job press -- The rotary press : the beginning -- Further developments of the rotary press -- Rotary grows up -- Lithography-stone printing -- The advent of sheet-fed offset -- Sheet-fed offset overtakes letterpress -- Here comes-- web-fed offsets : the beginning -- Web offset gains dominence [sic] -- Flexographic printing -- Gravure : a different slant on printing -- The specialty field -- Business forms presses -- Toy/desk-top hand presses -- Ye olde proof press -- Digital presses.
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Printing presses--History.
Printing machinery and supplies--History.
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The power of the press : history and development of printing presses from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century / Paul Martin Tonsing. - [1st ed.]. - Fort Worth, Tex. : P&T Pub. Co., [c1998] - 297 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
"A history of printing presses spanning 550 years"--Jacket. Includes index.
The beginning -- The Gutenberg press -- Benjamin Franklin -- The wooden press goes metallic -- The iron hand press -- The bed and platen press -- Koenig and the cylinder press -- Cylinder presses -- The cylinder press goes automatic -- The type revolving press -- The platen job press -- The rotary press : the beginning -- Further developments of the rotary press -- Rotary grows up -- Lithography-stone printing -- The advent of sheet-fed offset -- Sheet-fed offset overtakes letterpress -- Here comes-- web-fed offsets : the beginning -- Web offset gains dominence [sic] -- Flexographic printing -- Gravure : a different slant on printing -- The specialty field -- Business forms presses -- Toy/desk-top hand presses -- Ye olde proof press -- Digital presses.
0966963407
2001273096
Printing presses--History.
Printing machinery and supplies--History.
Z249 / .T65 1998
681/.62/09