printing press: Quick Facts

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Encyclopædia Britannica, first edition, art: printing press

Large industrial rotary press with a roll of white paper loaded at one end, set in a warehouse with shelves and boxes in the background.

offset printing press

A modern printing press that uses UV technology

Illustration of vintage printing press with bold text reading Gutenberg's printing press and a blue arrow pointing to the press, against a purple background.

Painting of a person with a headscarf reading a newspaper, with blue and white text overlaid reading: How the middle class learned to read.

See a working model of an early hand printing press

Hear about the piece of the first printed Gutenberg Bible owned by the University of Melbourne along with its other extensive collections

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Key People

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg

German printer

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John Walter, II

English journalist

Basil

Basil

prince of Moldavia

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Robert Hoe

American inventor and manufacturer

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Matthew Basarab

prince of Walachia

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Inventors and Inventions

cotton plants (cotton bolls; natural fiber)

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