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Article: SETTING THE STAGE for the 20th Century.
- Article from:
- Graphic Arts Monthly
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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In the 1800s, letterpress printers and stone lithographers alike worked in an industry dependent on patents, hand composition and hot-metal linecasting, and craftsmanship.
Since it's unreasonable to think that the history and evolution of the modem printing industry suddenly started up only in 1900, it's both interesting and useful to take a quick look at the end of the 1800s, to understand the state of the industry at the time and to appreciate the fact that mechanization, technical innovation in equipment and materials, and a quest for better quality and productivity were already fundamental to the graphic arts.
In a machine-dependent industry like ...