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  2. Lithography - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Lithography (from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos) 'stone', and γράφω (gráphō) 'to write') [1] is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. [2] The printing is from a stone ( lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German author ...

  3. Print culture - Wikipedia

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    Print culture. The transition of communication technology: oral culture, manuscript culture, print culture, and Information Age. Print culture embodies all forms of printed text and other printed forms of visual communication. One prominent scholar of print culture in Europe is Elizabeth Eisenstein, who contrasted the print culture of Europe in ...

  4. Letterpress printing - Wikipedia

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    Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing for producing many copies by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against individual sheets of paper or a continuous roll of paper. [1] A worker composes and locks movable type into the "bed" or "chase" of a press, inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer the ink ...

  5. Comparison of e-book formats - Wikipedia

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    The following is a comparison of e-book formats used to create and publish e-books . The EPUB format is the most widely supported e-book format, supported by most e-book readers except Amazon Kindle [a] devices. Most e-book readers also support the PDF and plain text formats. E-book software can be used to convert e-books from one format to ...

  6. Digital media - Wikipedia

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    In mass communication, digital media is any communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronic device, including digital data storage media (in contrast to analog electronic media ...

  7. Newsprint - Wikipedia

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    Newsprint. Newsprint is a low-cost, non-archival paper consisting mainly of wood pulp and most commonly used to print newspapers and other publications and advertising material. Invented in 1844 by Charles Fenerty of Nova Scotia, Canada, it usually has an off white cast and distinctive feel.

  8. Jawa Pos - Wikipedia

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    With 842,000 average daily circulation (2017), data by Nielsen Consumer & Media View (CMV), Jawa Pos is the most popular newspaper in Indonesia. History Early years (1949-1982) Jawa Pos was founded by The Chung Shen, or Suseno Tedjo, on July 1, 1949, under the name Djava-Post. At the time, The Chung Shen was a movie ads employee in a cinema in ...

  9. Media (communication) - Wikipedia

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    Media (communication) In communication, media are the outlets or tools used to store and deliver content; semantic information or subject matter of which the media contains. [1] [2] The term generally refers to components of the mass media communications industry, such as print media, publishing, news media, photography, cinema, broadcasting ...