Printing Technology Quotes

We have more patents on pigmented inks than anybody else.

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work! So it's pretty good technology.

Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

Science is a progressive activity. The outstanding peculiarity of man is that he stumbled onto the possibility of progressive activities. Such progress, the accumulation of experience from generation to generation, depended first on the development of language, then of writing and finally of printing. These allowed the accumulation of tradition and of knowledge, of the whole aura of cultural inheritance that surrounds us. This has so conditioned our existence that it is almost impossible for us to stop and examine the nature of our culture. We accept it as we accept the air we breathe; we are as unconscious of our culture as a fish, presumably, is of water.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.

3D printers give us what we've all been craving: another reason to talk to technical support. When you finally get the thing working, though, you'll be able to print out your grocery list as a cube! When you look up directions online, you can print the map out on a globe!

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.

The 3D-printing technology has been developing at a very rapid pace.

In traditional 3D printing, the gantry size poses an obvious limitation for the designer who wishes to print in larger scales and achieve structural and material complexity.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.

Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle.

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?