Offset Printing

Examples of Offset Printing in the following topics:

• Theatre and Novels

  • The boom in the underground press was made practical by the availability of cheap offset printing, which made it possible to print a few thousand copies of a small tabloid paper for a few hundred dollars.
  • Paper was cheap, and many printing firms around the country had over-expanded during the 1950s, leaving them with excess capacity on their offset web presses, which could be negotiated at bargain rates.
  • Many of the papers faced official harassment on a regular basis; local police repeatedly raided offices, charged editors or writers with drug charges or obscenity, arrested street vendors, and pressured local printers not to print underground papers.

• Union Finances

  • The Union emerged from the Civil War with a healthy economy by funding the war with new taxes, printing money, and issuing government bonds.
  • An additional means of financing the war was printing money, a strategy also employed in the Confederacy.
  • Apart from instituting new taxes and printing money, a third major source of funding was government bonds.
  • The Union printed paper money, which was used in lieu of gold and silver, to finance the war.
  • Describe how the Union financed the war through taxes, printing money, the sale of government bonds, and the creation of a national banking system

• A Communications Revolution

  • Mass production of inexpensive newspapers became possible due to the shift from handcrafted printing to steam-powered printing.

• Urban Recreation

  • Mass production of inexpensive newspapers became possible when technology shifted from handcrafted printing to steam-powered printing.

• The Stamp Act

  • Colonial uprising following the direct taxation on printed materials led to the first joint colonial response to British measures.
  • The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.

• Democracy v. Republicanism

  • The Founding Fathers wanted republicanism because its principles guaranteed liberty, with opposing, limited powers offsetting one another.

• Energy and Environmental Reform

  • Mana Alotaiba increased production to offset the decline, and the overall loss in production was about 4 percent.

• Budget Cuts

  • Citing the economic theories of Arthur Laffer, Reagan promoted the proposed tax cuts as potentially stimulating the economy enough to expand the tax base, offsetting the revenue loss due to reduced rates of taxation, a theory that entered political discussion as the Laffer curve.

• A World War

  • They sought to offset the disadvantage this created in Europe by allying themselves with one or more Continental powers whose interests were antithetical to those of their enemies, particularly France.

• The Scopes Trial

  • Of the most widely used books, there is only one listing for Evolution in the index and in the wake of the trial, under pressure from Fundamentalist groups, the entry is offset by Biblical quotations.