The power of the press
Subtitle: history and development of printing presses from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century
By: Paul Martin Tonsing.
Edition: [1st ed.].
Publisher: P&T Pub. Co.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Fort Worth, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Printing presses -- History; Printing machinery and supplies -- History
Notes: "A history of printing presses spanning 550 years"--Jacket.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The beginning; title: The Gutenberg press; title: Benjamin Franklin; title: The wooden press goes metallic; title: The iron hand press; title: The bed and platen press; title: Koenig and the cylinder press; title: Cylinder presses; title: The cylinder press goes automatic; title: The type revolving press; title: The platen job press; title: The rotary press : the beginning; title: Further developments of the rotary press; title: Rotary grows up; title: Lithography-stone printing; title: The advent of sheet-fed offset; title: Sheet-fed offset overtakes letterpress; title: Here comes; title: web-fed offsets : the beginning; title: Web offset gains dominence [sic]; title: Flexographic printing; title: Gravure : a different slant on printing; title: The specialty field; title: Business forms presses; title: Toy/desk-top hand presses; title: Ye olde proof press; title: Digital presses.