printing

When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press back in 1436, it revolutionized the world. Gutenberg's press rode the Renaissance Era that was quickly sweeping through Europe and the rest of the world, and soon it was the greatest invention of that century. Gutenberg's press eventually replaced block printing, making it the most used format of modern movable type in the world.

And with that, the evolution of printing took off at a breakneck speed. It not only made books cheaper so the common man could begin to read, become educated, and begin climbing the social echelons of class, but it made the Bible accessible to laymen — changing the course of religion forever. The clergy no longer had a monopoly on literacy and no longer had control over what was taught to the people.

The book was the first major milestone in printing, but it was not the last. Movable type printing came next, followed by the rotary printing press, offset printing, ink jet printing, and finally, the digital printing of today.

Nowadays, everything from meeting minutes to club flyers are printed and distributed via printing. And we have a brilliant goldsmith named Gutenberg to thank for it.

Bloggers speaking about printing can be found at sites such as uprinting and printpattern.

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• New 3D printed gun. Cheaper, more reliable

  
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  A new 3D printed gun costs $25 to make on a $1725 3D printer. It fired eight shots from one barrel successfully. The arms race continues… This handgun was printed with a $1,725 Lulzbot 3D printer and fired for the first time above. One plastic barrel survived eight shots, and another barrel was swapped in for ...
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• Printing Error Turns Pixar Kiddie Pool Into Informational Image On Bad Touching

  
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  What should be a happy photo of a mom hanging out in the yard with her two boys in their cool new Pixar-themed pool is horribly, terribly, tragically transformed into something much darker, all thanks to an apparent error at the printing press that managed to slip through unnoticed. Earlier today, someone posted ...
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• Local Motors Uses Makerbot for Production Rally Fighter Parts

  
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  File this under your ‘good uses for 3D printing’ stack. The Local Motors Lab Team has been actively using the MakerBot Replicator 2 3D Printer to print prototypes, scale-down versions of parts, and smaller replicated pieces. Lo and behold, one of these sample parts actually found it’s way onto the Rally ...
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• Watch a 3D-Printed Handgun Fire 9 Rounds

  
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  Just a couple of weeks after Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed released the files for the worlds first 3D-printed handgun , imitators have already replicated and improved upon it. Two gunsmiths from Wisconsin successfully fired their own Liberator nine times, without the gun showing any damage. As first ...
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• 3D printed bullets (video)

  
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  taofledermaus 3D print his own plastic shotgun slugs, with a spin on it to keep it balance.
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• Company develops new fiber-reinforced wood, concrete ink for 3D printing

  
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  Autore : ExtremeTech Even though 3D printing is an emerging market and technology, aside from Defense Distributed’s gun, it seems like it has hit a plateau. You can make little or somewhat-bigger-than-little figurines, teacups and mugs that often have leaks, or fragile parts — such as gears — that you can ...
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• This 3D Printed Gun Can Fire Nine Shots

  
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  The very first fully 3D printed gun – The Liberator – is now out on the Internet despite the State Department having the original files removed . So naturally, people are going to start making their own variations of the 3D printed handgun to improve its efficiency. Forbes’ Andy Greenberg reports that a ...
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• The Sugar Lab: The One-Stop Source for All Your 3D Printed Sugar Needs

  
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  Have you ever wondered what Willy Wonka’s factory would be making if it ‘existed’ in 2013? After attempting and failing to 3D print a cake for a friend years ago, Silver Lake-based husband and wife design team Kyle and Liz took their understanding of complex geometry and did something Wonka himself would be ...
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• Artwork Needed For T-Shirts To Be Sold On Web For S. Florida Artist – Freelance T-Shirt Design Job

  
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  I own a T-shirt screen printing company in Hialeah, FL. Currently, I have a project consisting of seven designs which will be printed on T-shirts of course. The designs have to do with casino… Go to Source
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• Chilean Thinker Thing created first ever 3D object with the mind

  
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  Last November Bryan Salt of Thinker Thing in Santiago Chile announced that he was working on a software that allows the user to evolve 3d models with the power of thought. On 8th May 2013 George Lakowsky, CTO of Thinker Thing successfully created a real physical object with his mind.
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• Company develops new fiber-reinforced wood, concrete ink for 3D printing

  
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  A San Francisco-based company, Emerging Objects, has created new 3D printing materials that arent just the standard plastic, but composed of wood, concrete, and even salt.
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• The Newest 3D-Printed Gun Is Far More Dangerous For Much Cheaper

  
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  After the stir several weeks ago, buzz surrounding Defense Distributeds 3D-printed gun has begun to (somewhat) die down. This is probably due in part to Kim Dotcoms removal of the guns blueprint from Mega and the fact that, frankly, the gun itself isnt much of an immediate threat . But as one potential threat ...
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• The $25 Lulz Liberator: The first 3D-printed gun with a rifled barrel

  
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  Proving that the open source movement is something that ought to be feared and revered, an engineer in Wisconsin has taken the worlds first 3D printed gun -- and refined it, so that it can be produced for just $25, with a cheap 3D printer.
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• This Company 3D Prints Bicycles In Titanium

  
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  3D printing usually evokes images of plastic materials, but the truth is that any number of materials can be used in the rapid prototyping process. SLM, or selective laser melting, is one such method used to essentially 3D print items with metal. Now one bike company is embracing a similar, yet more sophisticated, ...
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• Printing

  
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• 3D Printing Webinar: Printed Prototypes Feature Overmolded Parts - May 23, 2013

  
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  Printed Prototypes Feature Overmolded Parts Join us for our webinar on May 23, 2013 at 2:00 PM EDT / 6:00 PM GMT. ...
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• 5 Unique Wedding Printables

  
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  You know you need invitations cards to announce your wedding and invite your guests, wedding programs to commemorate your wedding, and thank-you cards to express gratitude for your supporters. Those are staple wedding printables; however, you can make your day extra-special by printing the following five unique ...
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• Charge Bikes: 3D titanium printing, the future of bike production (video)

  
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  Nick Larsen, Charge Bikes General Manager, tours the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company who uses 3D printing to produce titanium dropouts for Charge Bikes.
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• 3D Printing Hits the Big Time

  
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  The media has been alive lately with tales of the successes of 3D printing. 3D printing has amazing potential and is highly versatile, making it the ideal solution for a number of different projects. While it was very expensive in the past, it has become surprising affordable in recent years, making it an option for ...
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• Australian Scientists Are Printing Solar Cells Like T-Shirts

  
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  Scientists have produced the largest flexible, plastic solar cells in Australia—10 times the size of what they were previously able to—thanks to a new solar cell printer that has been installed at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). The printer is relatively cheap, uses common ...
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