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Printers have been around for a long time. Soon after papyrus was invented we were looking for ways to make multiple copies of the same image or text on it. The Chinese and Egyptians are the first cultures thought to have used block printing. Block printing was the world standard until the invention of movable type printing.

The movable type printers were a significant upgrade in both speed and print quality over block printing. For starters each page didn’t require its own dedicated block, a page could be printed off, the typeset changed, and a new page printed using the exact same frame. This led to the printing age of Europe, which introduced the Renaissance, and a whole new world of ideas.

Once movable type was invented, printers were called printing presses because of the pressure they utilized to foster the transfer of ink to paper. After the printing presses, printing began to diversify according to the application. Labels were printed using flexography, clothing was printed using silk screens.  The list goes on and on. Today you can get printers for just about any application you want, from making labels to making banners.

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