The concept of Graphic arts designates a set of trades, techniques, jobs and professions involved in graphics or publishing, for example, the aforementioned graphic arts include areas such as graphic design, the press, the different printing systems, binding and finishing.
Graphic Arts is a concept that will gain entity and importance after a hyper-crucial event in this area, such as the Invention of the movable type printing press by the German-born goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg in 1450. The best job Gutenberg got with his brand new creation was a print of the Bible.
Meanwhile, from this moment on, all trades and jobs associated with printing and graphic art began to be considered as a whole, such as the accommodation of movable type, binding, printing, finishing and any other type of process that is applied to the material that has been printed.
Towards the end of the 18th century, in the year 1796 more precisely, a new procedure appears that will once again revolutionize the graphic arts: lithographya novel printing technique developed by the German inventor Aloys Senefelder and that starting from the natural repulsion between water and oil, he used a limestone and a wax bar to make impressions. Later the stone will be replaced with an aluminum sheet.
then arrives photomechanicsthe technique that obtains negative transparencies, or failing that positive, of images, drawings, documents, among others, and that can be used to make faithful copies on a plate when they come into contact with it.
At the end of the 19th century there was a substantial improvement in printing thanks to the creation of the offset system It uses three cylinders.
Currently, New technologies and fantastic technological development have placed digital printing at the forefront. Mostly, graphic art is used at the time of advertising promotion of products and servicesbeing elements such as labels, bottles, posters, boxes, containers, labels, among others, the most recurrent means in which graphic arts are reflected.
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