Gutenberg invented a way of creating moveable type by casting individual letters from molten metal. Books could now be produced faster, cheaper, and in greater quantities, allowing information and ideas to be shared and human knowledge expanded. In the mid 15th Century, Johannes Gutenberg invented a process which not only revolutionised print, but changed the whole world. From those early days until the 1400s, the process remained more or less unchanged, with non-printing areas cut away from blocks of wood or stone. If only a small number of copies is to be made, printing can be done directly from the hand- or machine-set blocks of type assembled in forms, but for long press runs, duplicates- stereotypes or electrotyping ( qq.v.)-are made to prevent wear and damage of the expensive types.Letterpress is truly an ancient art, dating back to A.D 175 in China. The first keyboard-actuated typesetting machines, the Linotype and the Monotype ( qq.v.), were introduced in the 1890s. Originally the ink-bearing surface for printing a page of text was assembled from individual types by a typesetter or compositor, letter by letter and line by line. Letterpress is the oldest of the traditional printing techniques and remained the only important one from the time of Gutenberg, about 1450, until the development of lithography late in the 18th century and, especially, offset lithography early in the 20th.
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