Folder Printing
printlion.com is company that provides a variety of services, including folder printing. Here are some of the features that PrintLion offers with their printing service:
- High quality paper stock
- Business card slits
- Award-winning graphic design team
- Live Chat system
- Many shipping options
Printed folders can be very useful for presenting business ideas as well as school reports.
On another related note, I did some research on printing on Wikipedia and found some interesting things about printing:
Movable type is the system of printing and typography using movable pieces of metal type, made by casting from matrices struck by letterpunches. Movable type allowed for much more flexible processes than hand copying or block printing. Around 1040, the first known movable type system was created in China by Bi Sheng out of porcelain. Sheng used clay type, which broke easily, but Wang Zhen later carved a more durable type from wood by 1298 CE, and developed a complex system of revolving tables and number-association with written Chinese characters that made typesetting and printing more efficient. However, the main method in use there remained woodblock printing.
Copper movable type printing originated in China at the beginning of 12th century. It was used in large scale printing of paper money issued by the Northern Song dynasty. Korean movable metal typeset form, used to print in 1447. But around 1230, Koreans invented a metal type movable printing. The Jikji, published in 1377, is the earliest known metal printed book. Type-casting was used, adapted from the method of casting coins. The character was cut in beech wood, which was then pressed into a soft clay to form a mould and bronze poured into the mould and the type was finally polished.
Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg introduced what is regarded as an invention of movable type in Europe (see printing press), along with innovations in casting the type based on a matrix and hand mould. Gutenberg was the first to create his type pieces from an alloy of lead, tin and antimony - the same components still used today. A case of cast metal type pieces and typeset matter in a composing stick. Johannes Gutenberg's work on the printing press began in approximately 1436 when he partnered with Andreas Dritzehen - a man he had previously instructed in gem-cutting - and Andreas Heilmann, owner of a paper mill. It was not until a 1439 lawsuit against Gutenberg that official record exists; witnesses testimony discussed type, an inventory of metals (including lead) and his type mold. Compared to woodblock printing, movable type page setting and printing using a press was faster and more durable. The metal type pieces were sturdier and the lettering more uniform, leading to typography and fonts. The high quality and relatively low price of the Gutenberg Bible (1455) established the superiority of movable type, and printing presses rapidly spread across Europe, leading up to the Renaissance, and later all around the world. Today, practically all movable type printing ultimately derives from Gutenberg's movable type printing, which is often regarded as the most important invention of the second millennium.
It's interesting the transformations that have taken place to the printing industry since the beginning. Now that everything is digital it won't be long before something printed on paper will no longer be mainstream, but reminiscent of the past.
