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Mass Communication Media on Stamps Printing
The invention of the printing press in 1455 by Johannes Gutenberg was a most important advancement. He developed movable type, with individual letters cast in molten metal. These letters could be set in sentences one letter at a time. He also developed a workable press that mechanically imprints the type on a page. Did he become famous? No. He ran out of money. The lawyer he borrowed money from took him to court and he lost everything. He died blind, with no recognition for what he accomplished. Gutenberg's printing press made possible the publication of many more books and also books in ordinary languages, not just Latin. Richard Hoe developed a steam-powered rotary printing press in the United States in 1843. With it millions of copies of a single page could be printed in a day. Continuously-fed paper rolls allowed presses to run faster. In 2005, the highest capacity printing press could print 90,000 full color, 96-page newspaper broadsheet copies per hour. Today, much printing is personal and accomplished in color with electronic, digital, desktop publishing using small computer printers.

Mass Communication Media on Stamps
Printing

The invention of the printing press in 1455 by Johannes Gutenberg was a most important advancement.

He developed movable type, with individual letters cast in molten metal. These letters could be set in sentences one letter at a time.

He also developed a workable press that mechanically imprints the type on a page.

Did he become famous? No. He ran out of money. The lawyer he borrowed money from took him to court and he lost everything. He died blind, with no recognition for what he accomplished.

Gutenberg's printing press made possible the publication of many more books and also books in ordinary languages, not just Latin.

Richard Hoe developed a steam-powered rotary printing press in the United States in 1843. With it millions of copies of a single page could be printed in a day. Continuously-fed paper rolls allowed presses to run faster.

In 2005, the highest capacity printing press could print 90,000 full color, 96-page newspaper broadsheet copies per hour.

Today, much printing is personal and accomplished in color with electronic, digital, desktop publishing using small computer printers.

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