Printing Inks and Printing – History vs. New Technology
Printing INKS were invented or discovered some 4500 years ago by the Egyptians and Chinese. It took about another 17 centuries until PRINTING was invented in its crudest form. Another 2000 years passed until PRINTING was developed to the point where it could be used to produce reasonable duplicate reproductions.
There are two key points presented here today. Firstly, INK was invented eons before the first appreciable printing piece was ever produced. Secondly, the makeup of an INK has remained relatively the same as to what the folks in 2500 BC had come up with. Continuing to point; there are three (3) major components in any INK that provide the mechanism that make it work. The most important component of these three components is the vehicle. You can look at a vehicle as a simile to a living organism and its blood. Without blood, the organism cannot live. This provides basis for thought and the attempts that are being made with much unproven print technology. Some of the obstacles that the new inventors are facing are the mechanism of transference, adequate solubility and proper film formation on a given substrate. This is just to name a few when you endeavor to eliminate the component that people from centuries long ago understood was the ‘key’ to making INK.
With the new technology the developer has mistakenly introduced the PRINTING before the INK. In the most basic elementary ways of thinking and studying history as briefly aforementioned, one can see quite coherently the error that is being made. Trying to expeditiously correct the oversight will be a monumental task to overcome with the eagerness of the proprieties that have so far committed investment into it.
We live in a very advancing technological era. There is no mistaking that. Even our grandparents would be astounded by the strides and innovations that have been made in the last half century. With that said, it seems pretty preposterous that the discoveries and progress that mankind has made in 4500 years can be outdone in a whisper of time as short as a year or even a decade.
What is one than supposed to take from this writing? Studying history very long term and taking knowledge and wisdom gained from our forefathers will enlighten us to forge ahead gracefully to a more realistic future. Take it easy, slow and methodical. Learn intently and do not hasten progress for the benefit of very short term economic gain. To do so, would be an insult to the people who got us this far.
This was written as a contrarian view to the proposed technology of Nanography in 2014.
Printing INKS were invented or discovered some 4500 years ago by the Egyptians and Chinese. It took about another 17 centuries until PRINTING was invented in its crudest form. Another 2000 years passed until PRINTING was developed to the point where it could be used to produce reasonable duplicate reproductions.
There are two key points presented here today. Firstly, INK was invented eons before the first appreciable printing piece was ever produced. Secondly, the makeup of an INK has remained relatively the same as to what the folks in 2500 BC had come up with. Continuing to point; there are three (3) major components in any INK that provide the mechanism that make it work. The most important component of these three components is the vehicle. You can look at a vehicle as a simile to a living organism and its blood. Without blood, the organism cannot live. This provides basis for thought and the attempts that are being made with much unproven print technology. Some of the obstacles that the new inventors are facing are the mechanism of transference, adequate solubility and proper film formation on a given substrate. This is just to name a few when you endeavor to eliminate the component that people from centuries long ago understood was the ‘key’ to making INK.
With the new technology the developer has mistakenly introduced the PRINTING before the INK. In the most basic elementary ways of thinking and studying history as briefly aforementioned, one can see quite coherently the error that is being made. Trying to expeditiously correct the oversight will be a monumental task to overcome with the eagerness of the proprieties that have so far committed investment into it.
We live in a very advancing technological era. There is no mistaking that. Even our grandparents would be astounded by the strides and innovations that have been made in the last half century. With that said, it seems pretty preposterous that the discoveries and progress that mankind has made in 4500 years can be outdone in a whisper of time as short as a year or even a decade.
What is one than supposed to take from this writing? Studying history very long term and taking knowledge and wisdom gained from our forefathers will enlighten us to forge ahead gracefully to a more realistic future. Take it easy, slow and methodical. Learn intently and do not hasten progress for the benefit of very short term economic gain. To do so, would be an insult to the people who got us this far.
This was written as a contrarian view to the proposed technology of Nanography in 2014.
