Gutenberg

I have seen several stories on this legendary press but had never seen a picture. The systems involved were first assembled in Germany by Gutenberg, a goldsmith, in ca. 1439. What is not often talked about is that woodblock printing and movable type printing technologies were already developed in both China and Korea a few hundred years prior.

Printing methods based on Gutenberg's printing press spread rapidly throughout Europe and then the rest of the world. It eventually replaced most versions of block printing, making it the most used format of modern movable type As a method of creating reproductions for mass consumption, the printing press has been superseded by the advent of offset printing.