The process was invented in the 1880s by Hans Jakob Schmid (1856–1924), an employee of the Swiss company Orell Gessner Füssli—a printing firm whose history began in the 16th century.
O proceso foi inventado na década de 1880 por Hans Jakob Schmid (1856-1924), un empregado da compañía suíza Orell Gessner Füssli unha empresa de imprenta cunha historia que se estende ata o século XVI.