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Printing at its Finest
Throughout this process I first wanted to do the development of 3D printing and how it’s grown from 1986 to now but the more I dug into it the more I found out that 3D printing didn’t just come from thin air. That’s when I decided to do my project on printing as a whole and look at the progress of that. I started by searching “printing history” on WSU library and jstor but nothing really came up for the history of it so then I decided to look on Wikipedia instead. It showed me the entire history of printing starting from Woodblock printing in year 200 to digital printing in 1991. I knew I couldn’t do all of it’s history in one poster because there wasn’t enough pictures to show for the whole history so I picked three parts of the history that I could capture; printing press, digital printing and 3D printing. Printing as a whole has affect society in more ways then one. For example, the printing press allowed businesses to print out multiple copies at once including money. The press printer became one of the most important pieces of technology once it was found that cash could be made. The other thing printing has done to affect people this day an age is now with the access of 3D printing. Researchers have started creating organs due to the technology of 3D printing to help speed up the process of the transplant lists for certain organs like lungs.
I looked up these photos on Bing and using the Piktochart photo search through a cite called Unsplash. I used the pictures in a poster like outline using the definitions of each printer and the years they were created. The one thing that actually surprised me throughout this whole experiment was that digital printing came after 3D printing! The layout of the 3D printer was done by David E.H. Jones in 1974 but Charles “Chuck” Hull created the first 3D printer in 1986. The digital printer on the other hand was programmed by David Coons and was adopted by Graham Nash and his company later on. It was crazy to me that the digital printer came after 3D printing because 3D printing has become the big thing in this year’s technology. What this piece says to me is that even though 3D printing came before digital printing, the technology is updating and getting better and better by the year. Soon we’ll be able to make 3D organs to give to people on the transplant list, and we’ve already created portable digital printing early on this year. Printing itself is improving and growing in society and will hopefully become more helpful as years go by.
References:
Information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_printing
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a27355578/3d-print-lungs/
Photos
https://unsplash.com/photos/2tGFOMrcVIo
https://unsplash.com/photos/I0ucRdvImTo
https://unsplash.com/photos/UqCCSbAIaDU
https://unsplash.com/photos/3QN3BbJs3jM
https://unsplash.com/photos/L_N7BaNLC5Y