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Year of Introduction: 1904, Description: A printing technique where the inked image is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface.

Year of Introduction: 1976, Description: A type of printer that recreates a digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper and plastic substrates.

Year of Introduction: Introduced in the 1970s, popularized in the 1990s, Description: A printer that produces printed images by selectively heating coated thermochromic paper, known as thermal paper, as the paper passes over the thermal print head.

Year of Introduction: ~1440, Description: The first printing press with movable type, which revolutionized the production of books.

Year of Introduction: 1796, Description: A printing process that uses a flat stone or metal plate on which the image areas are worked using a greasy substance so that the ink will adhere to them while the non-image areas are made ink-repellent.

Year of Introduction: 1968, Description: A type of computer printer that prints by impact, striking a ribbon with a matrix of dots to form characters or illustrations.

Year of Introduction: 1971, Description: An electronic version of a printed book which can be read on a computer or a specifically designed handheld device.

Year of Introduction: 1938, Description: A dry copying process that uses electrostatic charges on a light-sensitive photoreceptor to first attract and then transfer toner particles onto paper in the form of an image.

Year of Introduction: 1986, Description: A form of additive manufacturing technology where a three-dimensional object is created by layering material in a process that involves curing a photo-reactive resin with a UV laser or another similar power source.

Year of Introduction: 1843, Description: A high-speed press that prints on paper from a continuous roll and can produce thousands of copies per hour.

Year of Introduction: 1993, Description: A high-speed printing machine that is capable of printing directly from a digital image to various media.

Year of Introduction: 1949, Description: A process that uses light to set type by projecting characters onto photographic paper or film.

Year of Introduction: 1957, Description: A printer that uses heat to transfer dye onto materials such as plastic, card, paper, or fabric.

Year of Introduction: 1980s, Description: Computer systems that enable the user to set, arrange, and alter scalable type and produce high-quality text.