People always felt the need to communicate and to have the information stored, so that they can use the information and transmit it to the next generations. The development of the language and the evolution of the materials that the people used brought to the appearance of the printing.

Aprox. 594 – Chinese people begin to practice printing from a relief in negative. The printing was then made with a fix press in which the paper sheets were pressed by wooden blocks on which were etched the text and the illustrations.  This method was spread in the West with the Arabians help or on the caravan routes from the Silk Road. In this period it was also invented the paper, fact that conducted to the creation of an ideal surface for the printing.

Aprox. 700 – The first printed newspaper in Beijing.

Aprox 868 – the first book is printed in China. Diamond sutra was printed on wooden molds and had around the text some illustrations.

Aprox 1401 – Bi Sheng, a Chinese printer, invents the mobile letter.

Aprox 1230 – the books are printed in Korea, using mobile letters made of metal.

Aprox 1400 – the printing technique on wooden blocks gets from Asia to Europe.

Aprox 1450 - Johannes Gutenberg, adapted the printing press with screw, based on the pressing method from the wine presses that were used on the Rin valley since Roman period. He used a ink based on oil that just appeared and a piece of metal divided as a prism array. He invented a metallic alloy that was poured in the form (mold) . The printed word facilitated the circulation of information and knowledge, which represented the privilege of the monasteries. After that, the first explosion of mass-media hit Europe. From 1500 until today, more than 9 million printed books were commercialized. Probably the biggest worth of Gutenberg is the fact that after the experimental period in which he did not knew anything, the printing reached rapidly degree of technique efficiency, insurmountable until the beginning of the nineteen century. The stamping, the mold assembly, the model pouring, the assembly and the printing remain in principal, for more than 300 years the same like in the period of Gutenberg. Improvements brought to the printing machines were insignificant and, until the end of the eighteen century, the original project of Gutenberg was almost as a common press.

1460 - The printing ink was invented after only 15 years after the first use of the colors for painting. These had to be capable to join an area of metal and they were based on linseed oils left a year to allow the sediment to settle. Resin could then be added. The black pigment used to be obtained from soot collected from burning coal. Lots of printers used to produce alone, in this way, the ink in 1850.

Aprox 1500 – the printing brought the first spreading environment for advertising and replaced during this period the governors that used to make announces in the markets with paper flyers.

1508 – at the initiative of the voivode Radu The Great, the prince of Rumanian, Macarie the monk, the first Rumanian printer, who learned this craft in Venice, begins the activity of printing some religious books in Slavonic. So, in 1508, he prints a Missal.there were fulfilled 500 years from the first printing across the roman countries.

1556 – Coresi the deacon prints the first Rumanian book at Schei.

1600 – The screw press was for the first time improved, since the period of Gutenberg, trough the introducing of some springs which helped the plateau to rise rapidly. It could print like 250 printings per hour. In this period began to appear the newspapers. The newspapers developed from printed pamphlets. The combination between advertising and newspapers permitted them to bloom starting with the seventeen century.

1640 – in the typography of Govora is printed Pravila, by the scholar and printer monk Silvestru.

1643 – The metropolitan Varlaam prints in Iasi, in the typography from TREE HIERARCS gifted by Petru Movila, the metropolitan of Kiev, more religious books in Slavonic.

1679 – Dosoftei, the metropolitan of Moldova, printed the Liturgy.

1688 – is printed the wholly Bible in  Bucharest  at the initiative of Serban Cantacuzino.

1799 – the printing by lithography was invented by the Austrian Alois Senefelder. He discovered that he can print from a flat, smooth surface, made of limestone with fine granules.in the nineteen century, the lithography was the best method for reproduction of quality for the book images, or for other publications, in more colors or monochrome at the beginning of the nineteen century, it was discovered the fact that the reproduction of images was better if the ink was transferred on paper trough a cylinder wrapped in a rubber than directly on the stone.this procedure began to be called offset, being used even in our days on the modern presses.

1803 – Was invented the machine that produces paper. The firs efficient machine was invented by Nicholas Louis Robert, but the patent was taken in England were it was made the first productive machine. The paper is specially made of flax and cotton.

1804 – Lord Earl of Stanhope replaced the wooden screw press, practically unchanged since the period Gutenberg, with an iron press.

1805 – Lord Stanhope introduced the stereotypy that was able to save the pages from the mold for retyping a sentence or a phrase.

1814 – Frederich Koenig invented the press with steam, which was used by the publication The Times from London.

1820 – The number of copies increased from 300 to 1100.

1822 –William Church invented the machine that pours letters, considered to be the Linotype predecessor.

1827 – The number of copies realized per hour increased from 1100 to 5000.

1829 – The stereotype procedure improved.

1840 – The American Richard March Hoe developed a rotation that was able to function with 20000 de samples per hour.

1840 – Began the manufacturing of paper from wood pulp, in 10 years spreading in the entire world.

1846 – March Hoe invented the first version of rotating printing. the number of copies increased to 24000 per hour.

1863 – William Bullock improved a method for continuous supplying of the paper in the machine, and this thing conducted to the replacement of the sheets.

1872 – Was invented the zincography

1880 – Was invented a method to produce the intermediary colors based on point systems at different dimensions.

1885 –linotype and monotype machines were improved.

1889 – At the exhibition in Paris, Hippolyte Marinoni showed on a rotating printing which uses a paper roll, how images print on both faces of the paper, which is after that cut and folded into stacks of newspapers, the entire operation being made at high speed.

1890 – Beginning from this moment it appeared a vast offer of rotating printings from which you can choose, each of it having its own technology. The evolution ended in the 70s when the offset and the photomontage were developed

1900 – 1970 – Manufacturers have added speed and quality to the presses.  After 1900, the electricity replaced the steam, and permitted the appearance of a variety of electric components and innovations which were applied on the presses.

1920 – The process of stereotypy was automated it also appear the mechanisms from the folds for additional.

1960 – for the first time it was used the offset for small newspaper circulations.

1980 – In these years once with the development of the internet and IT technique, it took place a new revolution in the typographic domain, trough the invention of the CTP and the programs for modifying the image.

Once the human being evolved, the techniques of text printing advanced.  The increasing request of information determined the enlightened minds of every age to look for new methods and to bring new improvements so that the need of knowledge could be satisfied.