The Gutenberg Press is a hand press where ink is rolled over a raised surface of moveable hand set block letters held within a wooden form.
Moveable type is a system of printing that uses moveable components to reproduce elements of document. Porous printing is the process of creating printed things using ink. Intaglio printing is where the area of the image to be printed is recessed into the surface of the printing plate and the recessed areas are filled with ink. Lithography is the transfer of a pattern to a photosensitive to an area using radiation or light. Offset lithography is the transfer of an image onto a printing plate. The image on the printing plate is not necessarily raised or recessed. Rollers place ink onto these printing plates and that is transfered to a rubber cylinder and that transfers the inked letter onto paper.
Offset lithography presses are a lot more efficient than the Gutenberg press. This is because our technology is much more advanced and has evolved into so much more.
CMYK is the process of four color printing. When something is printed, it first goes through a cyan printer, then a magenta printer, then a yellow printer, and finally a black printer and then it is complete.
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