11 Pieces of Printing Trivia Everbody Needs to Know

Too lots of people think of printing as a necessary disagreeable they put up with as a way to a finish. They miss the beauty, the possibilities & yes, the fun that goes hand in hand with this amazingly diverse field-a field that, with the advent of 3-D printing, the new possibilities they are discovering in digital printing & the elderly style beauty of offset printing, is becoming more diverse by the day!

It probably would not surprise you to know that printing has its own history. That is a given. What you might not know is that you are living in it, every day. You don't know it yet! For example, did you know that:

1. Benjamin Franklin, John Dunlap & the Wright Brothers were all printers by trade?
2. Paul Revere (a silversmith by trade) engraved the plates for the first colonial funds?
3. The printing industry may have given birth to the phrase, "Mind your p's & q's", an admonishment from the printer to his apprentice to watch carefully when setting the letters in an old-style printing press? (This has been debated, since there are a lot of feasible origins for the phrase & no is actually positive which is correct.)
4. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle?
5. They have about $500 billion in U.S. funds currently in circulation, most of it outside of the U.S.?
6. In 1999 a 1943 copper penny was sold at auction for $112,500?
7. When a master printer was printing a page & discovered a specific sort was empty, he'd be...upset? Upset. Hence the phrase, "Out of Sorts".
8. The first book to be printed using a moveable type printing press was the Gutenberg Bible?
9. 3D printing was used to check lighting for every scene in the film "Avatar?"
10. People have been printing since 1447? (This means there is, in fact, a distinct possibility that a variety of the pieces you see in the museum ARE older than dirt.)
11. Pringles time combined inkjet printing with food coloring to print trivia questions & answers on their chips?

Go ahead. Tell me you seldom ate a Pringles. Or read about Paul Revere. Or told your co-workers to cease being so out of sorts. & they are not even going to speak about minding your p's & q's!