Trace the growth of printing press in India.
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1.The first kind of print technology involved hand printing, later books were printed by rubber paper in China.
2.Earliest form of printing also involved woodblocks printing, China was the first country to use paper, ink and carved wooden blocks.
3.Later developments in the print technology involved first movable type which included movable pieces of metal type.
4. Printing presses came into being, Gutenberg is credited with developing first modern movable type, which involved making of metal mould for casting types of different sizes.
5.By mid 19th century power driven mechanical cylindrical press came into being, capable of printing 8,000 sheets per hour.
6.We witnessed development of offset press for printing colors.
7.Then further innovations like electrically operated presses, automatic paper reels. photoelectric controls of color register all revolutionized printing.
(i) Handwritten manuscripts : India had a very rich and old tradition of handwritten manuscripts in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, as well as in various vernacular languages. Manuscripts were copied on palm leaves or on handmade paper.
(ii) Print came to India : The printing press first came to Goa with Portuguese missionaries in the mid 16th century.
(iii) James Hicky and print : From 1780, James Augustus Hicky began to edit the Bengal Gazette, a weekly magazine.
(iv) Print in the 18th century : By the close of the 18th century, a number of newspapers and journals appeared in print. The first Indian weekly i.e. Bengal Gazette also came into picture in the late 18th century
(v) Print in the 19th century : By the end of the 19th century, a visual culture started taking place. By 1870’s caricatures and cartoons were being published in journals and newspapers.
1.The first kind of print technology involved hand printing, later books were printed by rubber paper in China.
2.Earliest form of printing also involved woodblocks printing, China was the first country to use paper, ink and carved wooden blocks.
3.Later developments in the print technology involved first movable type which included movable pieces of metal type.
4. Printing presses came into being, Gutenberg is credited with developing first modern movable type, which involved making of metal mould for casting types of different sizes.
5.By mid 19th century power driven mechanical cylindrical press came into being, capable of printing 8,000 sheets per hour.
6.We witnessed development of offset press for printing colors.
7.Then further innovations like electrically operated presses, automatic paper reels. photoelectric controls of color register all revolutionized printing.
(i) Handwritten manuscripts : India had a very rich and old tradition of handwritten manuscripts in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, as well as in various vernacular languages. Manuscripts were copied on palm leaves or on handmade paper.
(ii) Print came to India : The printing press first came to Goa with Portuguese missionaries in the mid 16th century.
(iii) James Hicky and print : From 1780, James Augustus Hicky began to edit the Bengal Gazette, a weekly magazine.
(iv) Print in the 18th century : By the close of the 18th century, a number of newspapers and journals appeared in print. The first Indian weekly i.e. Bengal Gazette also came into picture in the late 18th century
(v) Print in the 19th century : By the end of the 19th century, a visual culture started taking place. By 1870’s caricatures and cartoons were being published in journals and newspapers.
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Growth of printing press in India.
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- The first printing press came to Goa in the mid sixteen century by the Portuguese missionaries.
- Catholic priest prints the first Tamil book in 1580 in Cochin and in 1712 the first book was printed by them in Malayalam.
- By the advent of 1710, Dutch protestants missionaries had printed off the 30 Tamil texts which were the translation of the older works.
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