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In the 1400s, German inventor Johannes Gutenberg developed a movable type printing system for publishing Bibles. His technique became the worldwide standard, and two centuries later, in Strasburg ...
15th century woodcuts show that the composing stick I used when I started work as a 'printer's devil' in 1946 is virtually the same as those used in Gutenberg's press. My generation was the last ...
As recently as 30 years ago, most daily newspapers in Thailand were printed by letterpress, a 15th-century printing technology invented by Johannes Gutenberg. Bangkok Post - The world’s window ...
“At the Cowell Press, students work with the basic typographic tools, those used by printers since Gutenberg: metal type, a composing stick, and the letterpress,” said Graalfs. “This teaches students ...
JOURNEYMEN printers lived up to their name. They travelled. From Gutenberg's trainees in the 15th century, knowing how to set type and print from it has been a peripatetic profession. Itinerants ...