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The technology for printing cotton fabrics 'East India style' didn't spread in Europe until the 18th century. Calico printing in Erlangen goes back to the dyer Peter Hartner, who had found out about this hitherto more or less unknown process. He obtained a Margravial Privilege for his newly established 'Clothing, Cotton and Silk Printing Workshop' in 1751, which, after his death in 1756, passed to the workshops of his three sons.

The three Hartner enterprises achieved superregional importance, and printed fabrics that were sent to Erlangen from southern Germany and by Saxonian putting-out agents. By 1792, the most successful of the three workshops had developed into the largest and highest-turnover enterprise in Erlangen.

The Napoleonic Wars and concomitant Continental Blockade (1807–1810), as well as growing foreign competition and the introduction of roller printing in England in particular, led to the demise of the three manufacturing workshops. Like all Franconian cotton printing enterprises, the Hartners' had perished by 1830.