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| | title = Printing press | | title = Printing press | ||
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| | caption = A screw press with movable type | | caption = A screw press with movable type | ||
| | label1 = Inventor | | label1 = Inventor | ||
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| The iron press replaced wood around 1800, allowing a single pull to print a full sheet. Steam-driven cylinder presses from 1814 pushed output from hundreds of sheets per hour into the thousands, making the mass-circulation newspaper possible. Linotype machines from the 1880s mechanised typesetting itself. Offset lithography and, from the late twentieth century, digital printing and electronic distribution then displaced letterpress almost entirely. | The iron press replaced wood around 1800, allowing a single pull to print a full sheet. Steam-driven cylinder presses from 1814 pushed output from hundreds of sheets per hour into the thousands, making the mass-circulation newspaper possible. Linotype machines from the 1880s mechanised typesetting itself. Offset lithography and, from the late twentieth century, digital printing and electronic distribution then displaced letterpress almost entirely. | ||
| − | The pattern that began with | + | The pattern that began with Gutenberg, a fall in the cost of copying followed by an argument over who may publish, recurs with the [[Internet]] and the [[World Wide Web]], where the marginal cost of a copy fell effectively to zero. |
| == See also == | == See also == | ||
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