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The printing industry in India [ 1] is an important industry in that country. [ 2] Printing means to produce reproductions of written material or images in multiple copies. There are four traditional types of printing: relief printing (with which this article is mainly concerned), intaglio, lithography, and screen process printing.
The history of printing starts as early as 3000 BCE, when the proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations used cylinder seals to certify documents written in clay tablets. Other early forms include block seals, hammered coinage, pottery imprints, and cloth printing. Initially a method of printing patterns on cloth such as silk, woodblock printing ...
The first 3D printing (additive manufacturing) was used in 1983 by an American inventor, Charles (Chuck) W. Hull, to make industrial components.It is unknown when 3D printing technology entered India, but the earliest reference to 3D printing in India is when Imaginarium company started making jewellery via 3D printing technology. 3D printing has been rapidly used in many industries in India ...
Shaw emphasizes how the early phase of printing in Calcutta marked a transition between print culture and a culture that depended on a race of scribes. A letter to the editor of the India Gazette (7 April 1781) implies how the easy availability of scribes made printing seem a less urgent step to be introduced by the government.
A fragment of a dharani print in Sanskrit and Chinese, c. 650–670, Tang dynasty The Great Dharani Sutra, one of the world's oldest surviving woodblock prints, c. 704-751 The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang-dynasty China, 868 AD (British Museum), the earliest extant printed text bearing a date of printing Colophon to the Diamond Sutra dating the year of printing to 868
Mass media in India consists of several different means of communication: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and Internet-based websites/portals. Indian media was active since the late 18th century. The print media started in India as early as 1780. Radio broadcasting began in 1927. [1] [2] Today much of the media is controlled ...
The Reserve Bank of India, India's central banking authority, was established in April 1935, but was nationalized on 1 January 1949 under the terms of the Reserve Bank of India (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948 (RBI, 2005b). [ 31] In 1949, the Banking Regulation Act was enacted, which empowered the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to regulate ...
The Security Printing & Minting Corporation of India Ltd. ( SPMCIL) is a company under the Department of Economic Affairs, which is a department under the Ministry of Finance. It is responsible for conducting printing and minting activities of the Government of India. It is under the ownership of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India.