I suspect that the introduction of moveable type to Germany greatly contributed to both witchcraft panics and anti-Jewish pogroms.
Even before the first actual, regular newspaper was published in 1604, Germany was rife with "news sheets" that printed all sorts of lurid and fantastical tales in order to increase sales. Think of modern-day tabloids or FOX News at their worst. And all those tales must be true, or else they wouldn't have been printed, right?
Some of the tales are rather amusing (like the Sankt Andreasberg cat that gave birth to 300 kittens and a goat in a single night while under the influence of a comet). But then there's a tale of a Jew who supposedly tried to "torture" blessed altar bread and, when he could not destroy it "with fire or water", he tried to "bake it into a cake". And then the dough became red, and he beheld a vision of Baby Jesus within the oven...
Such tales took on lives of their own, and helped keep all sorts of bigotries alive. Just like modern-day social media do...
(By the way, if anyone can give me some recommendations for scholarly works on the early era of mass printing, I am all ears - so far, I've mainly picked up individual anecdotes.) #printing#witchcraft#antisemitism#history
I hate 2D printers, how is it after decades these machines still can’t be reliable. This one is not even 3 years old! Now giving me tons of issues. My 3D printer is more reliable, if I could 3D print documents at this point I would do it just because I seem to have less issues. Do I need to buy another one already? I like print 30 pages a month at most. 🤦♂️
First print of this birthday card I designed. I may redo things a bit. My wife actually suggested a party hat for the skull so I may make a version like that.
I designed and (relief) printed a generic birthday card. My plan is/was to do a bunch of different ones and have them sitting around ready to go when an unexpected birthday sneaks up on me.
Would you prefer a hand-printed card (that I actually designed) to a store-bought card?
(And before anyone asks, yeah, I tried it through GNOME/the graphical settings app. This is the only thing that worked, using a legacy driver that I had to scroll though a list of thousands of entries to find in a – thank fuck it exists – legacy web interface from what looks like circa 1993, which I’m informed is not going to exist for much longer.)
Had some issues with #printing these, I think the ink was too cold so I'm going to keep it upstairs where it's warmer and try again tomorrow because I want 50 of these things and it won't work if it keeps getting fouled and I need to clean it.
After months of learning and making, I have finally made a handmade photobook for my Jackdaw series. The handmade box contains two handmade books with 16 cyanotype prints and a typewritten essay that tells the story behind this project. #photography#books#photobooks#handmade#bookbinding#printing#cyanotypes
Can someone tell me if i have this right.
There is no such thing as a CMYK monitor is there. I mean i know you can profile a monitor or software or calibrate them to best approximate cmyk. But as far as i know, tech wise, all monitors are essentially rgb.
Or am i missing something, a graphic designer mentioned to someone they could get a cmyk monitor to match prints.
is this some niche printing industry monitor im not aware of?
Last month was the 150th anniversary of the invention of the typewriter, which was created in Milwaukee by journalist/printer/politician Christopher Latham Sholes. Here's a look at its history and ongoing relevance, and how Milwaukeeans celebrated the typrewriter's big birthday with the inaugural QWERTYFEST, an inky paradise for collectors, artists, history buffs and word nerds.
German inventor and craftsman Johannes Gutenberg died #OTD in 1468.
His early printing process, and what texts he printed with movable type, are not known in great detail. His later Bibles were printed in such a way as to have required large quantities of type, some estimates suggesting as many as 100,000 individual sorts. In the following decades, punches and copper matrices became standardized in the rapidly disseminating printing presses across Europe. via @wikipedia
Somehow our uni printing backend turned my 6MB PDF into 10 GIGABYTES... How? I have no idea. I had my worst printing experience today and got home with only 80% of what I wanted to print out 💀 It works normally but today (after giving up on uploading and using a USB stick) I had my funds run out mid-printing, then after that had the color run out mid-printing and after that it said I have no funds even though I charged my account again! #print#printing#uni#studying#computerscience#tech
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After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.