JOHANNES GUTENBERG
• BORN: 1398 in Mainz • NAME: His first name was Gensfleisch • INVENTED: The printing press with portable letters • DIED: 1468 in Mainz
The Printing press • The Printing press works like a normal wine press Pressure Paper
Portable letters with black ink
The portable letters Single moving - letters, - numbers, - punctuation marks, etc. which can be composed mirrored to any words. Material: lead alloy
How it works 1.First put together the letters for the 1st page 2. Then you put the black ink on the letters 3. Then put the pages into the printing press and put a paper on it and then press 4.There is the leaflet
The use With the printing press it was possible to produce: • faster • more • cheaper pictures, leaflets and books.
The consequences Without Gutenberg's invention, we would not have any newspaper or magazines and prints that we have today