This book contains a comprehensive and complete overview of craft and industrial printing, from its origins in the 15th century to the present. Illustrated with hundreds of prints and print details and countless technical drawings, it provides an enlightening insight into all graphic printing processes: relief printing (woodcut, wood engraving), intaglio (copper engraving, etching techniques), planographic printing (lithography), carbonless printing (screen printing) and the resulting reproduction techniques. As such, it is an important reference work for graphic artists, printers, designers, drawing teachers, art historians and graphic art enthusiasts/collectors.