ISSN:
0570-0833
Keywords:
Printing forms
;
Chemistry
;
General Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The economic reproduction of graphic information was first made possible in the western world by Gutenberg's invention of movable type. In the printing methods of that time, mechanical transfer processes played the major role, while chemical processes were of secondary importance. When Alois Senefelder invented planographic printing (lithoprinting) at the end of the 18th century he called the new process “chemical printing”. Since then, chemistry has attained great importance in the production of printing forms: Thus the manufacture of surface (litho-) printing forms with light required temporary storage materials and image reproduction processes based on chemical reactions. Since the advent of electronic processing of information, however, several former temporary storage media have become obsolete; newer, more sensitive image reproduction processes are increasingly making less use of chemical principles than of the electrical properties of materials.
Additional Material:
20 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.198000991
