1905	- The French engraver Thibaudeau organised the printing types into families: anciens, egyptians, elziers, didots and fantasies.
1906	- Caspar Hermann built in Germany the firts off-set machine with three similar diameter cylinders.
1911	- The Copyright Act began to come into force in USA.
1914	(13th May) - First transmission from the belinograph???? to the "Journal". It was Lyon Fair inauguration illustration.
1921	- Robert Miehle invented in Chicago the famous "Miehle Vertical" printing-machine, totally automated.
1928	- The first demo of Walter Morey's "Teletypesetter" took place n Rochester, USA. - The first book clubs were created in Germany and Switzerland. - Liher created the first photocomposition machine, which sooner was forgotten. On the 30's this system will be continued, with the development of the offset and heliogravure. A machine capable of composing a great diversity of characters (from the smallest ones to the biggest) was commercialised on 1945.
1935	- Vladimir Zworykin invented the iconoscopy. This equipment allowed the electronic analysis of the images.
1938	- A printer, Webendorfer, put on work the first blanchet blanchet rotaries.
1940	(19 Dez.) - Em Paris surge o primeiro número do jornal "Le Monde" dirigido por Hubert Beube-Méry.
1940	(19 Dez.) - Em Paris surge o primeiro número do jornal "Le Monde" dirigido por Hubert Beube-Méry.
1948	- The Fairchild entreprise become to commercialise a photogravure "scanner". This equipment allows to engrave relief type clichés, in black and white.
1949	- The first demos of the photo-composer of the second Lumitype generation - Photon - took place in N.Y.
1954	- Maximilien Vox divided the typographic characters by nine "families": manual, geralds humans, real, diddones, mecanes, incises, linears, and "scripts". the first optical readers were installed in "Worcester Telegram". The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) allowed to turn the production process shorter, by reading the codes which are interpreted by the photo-compositors.
1965	(5th December) - The Pope Paul 5th put an end to the Index.
1967	- The first tube cathodic photo-compositor of the third generation.
1968	- In USA the first Cameron printer is created, which in 1972 will be in production phasys.
1970	- In New York was published the first work composed with an optical reader and with a third generation photo-compositor.
1971	- In "Milwankce Journal" were installed optical readers.
1973	- In Harfford, USA, the first laser photo-compositor was installed, for the composition of a newspaper.
1973	(18th April) - "Liberation", being Jean Paul Sartre the director.
1974	- The first screens of desktop publishing assisted by computer.
1976	- First applications of laser photogravure.    80's - The informatic systems for the newspapers, magazines and books production are multiplying itself.
1981	- The "International Herald Tribune" installed on the editorial room visualisations console display. This allowed the journalists to send directly the texts for the photocomposition, which provides the proof and film without the intervention of a typography worker.
1988	- By January, during the Paris-Dackar rally, the France-Press had transmitted the first telephoto by satellite, through a digital emitter, named Dixel.