History of the Printing Press

The very first printing press was created in 1450 in Mainz, Germany by a man named Johannes Gutenberg. His idea for the press first started in 1440 when he was politically exiled from Mainz and started experimenting with printing in Strasbourg, France. He returned back to Mainz and the first printing press was created and named the Gutenberg Press. 
Gutenberg's design for the printing press was to make it out of metal and had printing blocks for each letter, so that they can make moveable type. He also created his own ink so that it would work better with metal than the other types of ink that was usually used with wood. For the paper, he would use a winepress, which was traditionally used for grapes and olives to make wine and oil. 
Johannes Gutenberg got his funding from a man named Johannes Fust and together they created things like books, calendars, pamphlets and other smaller things. In 1452, Gutenberg had produced the only book that came from his shop: Bible. It is believed that he made 180 copies, with each book roughly 1,300 pages long, and 60 of them were created on vellum. 
3 years later, in 1455, Johannes Fust left and took Gutenberg's equipment after a lawsuit and he and Peter Schoffer continued on with the printing. Once Schoffer acquired the press, he was considered the better printer of the two. He had produced a version of The Book of Psalms that included a three color title page and varying types. 
The printing press soon spread throughout Europe, with Italy being the next country to use the invention. It soon continued throughout the rest of Europe and was being used in schools and private printing companies. Throughout the next century many notable figures like Pope Alexander VI, John Calvin and Martin Luther were known to have used the printing press to spread their religious ideas. By 1605, the first official newspaper, titled Relation was printed and distributed in Strasbourg, France. With the creation of newspapers, the printing press had become the major contribution to the growth of literacy and education among "ordinary people." 

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