Question

describe the development of printing press after gutenberg

Answer 1

The steam powered rotary printing press, invented in 1843 in the United States by Richard M. Hoe allowed millions of copies of a page in a single day. Mass production of printed works flourished after the transition to rolled paper, as continuous feed allowed the presses to run at a much faster pace.

By the late 1930s or early 1940s, rotary presses had increased substantially in efficiency: a model by Platen Printing Press was capable of performing 2,500 to 3,000 impressions per hour.[citation needed]

Also, in the middle of the 19th century, there was a separate development of jobbing presses, small presses capable of printing small-format pieces such as billheads, letterheads, business cards, and envelopes. Jobbing presses were capable of quick set-up (average setup time for a small job was under 15 minutes) and quick production (even on treadle-powered jobbing presses it was considered normal to get 1,000 impressions per hour [iph] with one pressman, with speeds of 1,500 iph often attained on simple envelope work).[citation needed] Job printing emerged as a reasonably cost-effective duplicating solution for commerce at this time.

Answer 2

Johann Gutenberg ( a goldsmith and inventor from Germany) invented portable printing in Europe. He introduced the first printing press in the 1430s. He printed a Bible in 42 lines, generally identified as the Gutenberg Bible. The development of the printing press after Gutenberg can be seen in the fact that similar pieces of the model could be utilized, again and again, to imprint multiple copies. It is only after the development made by Johann Gutenberg that printing became the initial medium of mass communication. It put more information into the hands of more people faster and more inexpensively than ever before. As a result of this reading and writing expanded extensively and swiftly.