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my jobs printing. this is during downtime between proofs and my little window into the press floor. i love the smell of the presses. this glass barrier robs me of this simple pleasure.
this is me with the last handset letterpress used to produce a paper in the united states. it stopped producing a local newspaper about a month ago.
Each of the three Long Island hospitals had their own printing presses and produced newspapers on site.
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in Europe around 1440. The German blacksmith and goldsmith, turned printer and publisher, introduced mechanical movable type printing, resulting in an altered societal structure in Renaissance Europe.
Sources:
Eisenstein, E (1979) ‘Defining the initial shift: some features of print culture’ in The Printing Press as an Agent of Change Vol. 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 43-163
By Brett Osteen (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
RJS01614 old printing press at the medieval Bled Castle built on a cliff face overlooking lake Bled and the city of Bled in Slovenia
Whereas European publishing required these huge machines, a massive upfront start-up cost, Japanese printing had minimal start-up costs, allowing publishing to proliferate in a way it never did in Europe.