An overview of printing
Printing involves the use of a variety of tools and techniques to reproduce pictures and text using inks applied to a material such as paper.
Printing involves the use of a variety of tools and techniques to reproduce pictures and text using inks applied to a material such as paper.
(Born 1802 in Perth, Perth and Kinross)
Along with Robert Adamson, Hill helped to pioneer photography and they started the first photographic studio in Scotland. He was a painter and arts activist. One of his best known paintings is - The Pier at Leith - 1860. Leith is in the north of the City of Edinburgh.
(Born 1747 in Strabane, Tyrone)
Dunlop is perhaps best known for the fact that he printed the very first American Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776, when he would have only been 19 years old.
