How did the invention of printing press change the way of communication?
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The printing press increased the speed of communication and the spread of knowledge: Far less man hours were needed to turn out 50 printed books than 50 scribed manuscripts
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Just as the Internet is changing the way people communicate today, the modern printing press revolutionized and expanded communication and commerce.
Before the offset press, printing was all done by hand, one document at a time. This type of printing was done on a “Letterpress”, which each letter was placed by hand into a “chase”. This chase contained everything, that is, the letters, spaces between the letters, periods, etc. Images were carved from wood. The letters were made from lead, and the spaces were made of wood. This chase was usually quite heavy. The reason lead was used is because once the printing of the document was completed the lead words could be re-melted back into liquid lead to be used to make new words.
The letterpress was a simple machine where ink could be placed into a fountain that slowly feed ink onto rollers. One of these rollers would roll over the chase that applied ink to the letters. Paper was then fed into the press, one sheet at a time, and the chase was squeezed onto the paper.
This is how all printing was done before the offset press was invented.
Once the modern offset press was invented, printing could be done much, much faster and much cheaper than the old letterpress. This lead to printing of not only just newspapers or single flyers but monthly magazines, and businesses from every small town around the country could get anything printed they needed for their industry.
The offset press continues to get upgraded almost yearly and now with computers, these presses are much more automated. One offset press today can produce in one day what a letter press could produce in one year. This volume revolutionized production and forever changed commerce and the way people communicated around the world