[Gutenberg 63545] • A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day
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- Authors
- Hoe, Robert
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Tags
- printing -- history , r. hoe & company , printing machinery and supplies
- ISBN
- 9781331920847
- Date
- 2015-08-08T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 3.78 MB
- Lang
- en
Excerpt from A Short History of the Printing Press: And of the Improvements in Printing Machinery From the Time of Gutenberg Up to the Present Day
About the year 1450, Gutenberg was engaged in printing his first book from movable types. No method of taking the impressions simpler than that employed by him can be imagined, unless it be with a "buffer," or by means of a brush rubbed over the paper laid upon the "form" of type, after the manner of the Chinese in printing from engraved blocks. His printing press consisted of two upright timbers, with cross pieces of wood to stay them together at the top and bottom. There were also intermediate cross timbers, one of which supported the fiat "bed" upon which the type was placed, and through another a wooden screw passed, its lower point resting on the centre of a wooden "platen," which was thus screwed down upon the type. After inking the form with a ball of leather stuffed with wool, the printer spread the paper over it, laying a piece of blanket upon the paper to soften the impression of the platen and remove inequalities. This was the machine which Gutenberg used. The mechanical principle embodied in it was found in the old cheese and linen presses ordinarily seen in the houses of medieval times.
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