Printing press
ObjectHistoric Inventions
Machine press that transfers ink onto paper, cloth, or similar surfaces.
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Printing press
- Historic Inventions
A printing press is a machine that applies pressure to transfer ink onto paper, cloth, or similar material. Johannes Gutenberg invented it around 1440. Its spread changed literary production and communication in early modern Europe, lowering the cost and increasing the availability of printed texts. Wooden handpress designs remained broadly consistent for more than three centuries, before iron, steam-powered, rotary, offset, phototypesetting, and digital methods developed.
- Inventor
- Johannes Gutenberg, around 1440
- Function
- Applies pressure to transfer ink onto a surface
- Later replacement
- Offset printing, phototypesetting, and digital printing in commercial work
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- Printing press (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q144334
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
- Illustration
- By International Printing Museum. CC0 · File page on Wikimedia CommonsInternational Printing Museum, Own workModifications: Resized and converted to WebP
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