Source - printinghistory.org/timeline/
1931 Albert Skira publishes his first livre de peintre, Ovid's Metamorphoses with etchings by Pablo Picasso in Lausanne, Switzerland.
1932 Times New Roman typeface debuted by the The Times newspaper in London. Commercially released the following year by the Monotype Corporation.
1933 Synthetic rubber printing rollers appear. The Newspaper Guild established in 1933, affiliated with the Communications Workers of America in 1995.
1934 Pocket Pal: A Graphic Arts Production Handbook, first issued by Grover Daniels of Daniels' Printing in Everet, Massachusetts.
1935 Penguin paperbacks introduced in Great Britain. Bookburnings carried out on a large scale in Nazi Germany.
1937 Boston Typothetae renamed Graphic Arts Institute of Massachusetts. FAG (Fournitures pour les Arts Graphiques) prepress equipment manufacturer established in Switzerland. The American Imprint Inventory begins under Douglas C. McMurtrie, a Depression-era section the Historical Records Survey to identify and catalogue US imprints produced before 1800 (1890 west of the Mississippi). Suspended in 1942.
1938 Xerography (photocopying) developed by Chester S. Carlson of Queens, New York.
1940 Print, A Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts.
1943 Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft by Dard Hunter.
1946 Bookbinding, Its Background and Technique by Edith Diehl. International Standards Organization (ISO) founded in London.
1947 Graphic Arts Institute of Massachusetts changes name to PIA-New England Communications Workers of America (CWA) formed.
1949 Phototypesetting developed.
1950s Photopolymer used for flexography. Term "prepress" replaces "pre-makeready" used in commercial letterpress, particularly in regard to printing photoengravings.
1951 Inkjet printing developed. Drupa is the world's largest printing equipment exhibition first held in Düsseldorf.
1952 The Wonderful World of Insects, first book composed by phototypesetting.
1954 Leonard Baskin establishes his Gehenna Press while a student at the Yale School of Art.
1955 Printing for Pleasure by John Ryder, it popularized the amateur and fine press movement after World War II. Claire Van Vliet establishes the Janus Press. Allied Printing Trades Association (formed in 1911) admits five unions: United Papermakers and Paperworkers, the Newspaper Guild, the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, and the Plate Printers, Die Stampers and Engravers.
1957 Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI). Helvetica typeface introduced. Dye-sublimation printing developed. Image scanner (176 pixels) introduced. Tilon, the first photopolymer-based letterpress plate is developed by Time, Inc.
1958 New Graphic Design an internationally influential journal published in Zurich until 1965.
1959 Xerographic office photocopying introduced.
1960 Tamarind Lithography Workshop is founded by June Wayne in Los Angeles.
1961 IBM "golf ball" typewriter introduced. Letraset, dry rub-down instant lettering developed.
1962 Ed Ruscha publishes Twentysix Gasoline Stations.
1963 Pantone Color Matching System introduced. "Printing and the Mind of Man" exhibition in London.
1964 Printing Historical Society founded in London. Walter Hamady founds his Perishable Press. In 1966, he moves to the University of Wisconsin—Madison. National Graphical Association formed in Great Britain through the merger of the Typographical Association and the London Typographical Society.
1965 Term "hypertext" coined.
1967 WorldCat founded, an online catalog describing the collections of libraries worldwide. 1967 Carl Dair created Cartier, the first Canadian-designed type face.
1968 Dot matrix printing introduced.
1969 Laser printer invented at Xerox. Printing with A Handpress published by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. The Visual Studies Workshop is founded in Rochester, New York.
1970 Water-based ink introduced.
