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A printer is a company that provides commercial printing
Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....
 services, often also offering typesetting
Typesetting

Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in graphic form on paper or some other Recording medium. Before the advent of desktop publishing, typesetting of printed material was produced in print shops by compositors or typesetters working by hand, and later with machines....
 and book-binding services. The term can also refer to people who operate printing press
Printing press

A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a medium , thereby transferring an image. The mechanical systems involved were first assembled in Germany by the goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg around 1439, based on existing screw-presses used to press cloth, grapes etc., and possibly to print wood...
es, or who run printing companies.

With the invention of the moveable type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a Germany goldsmith and printer who is credited with being the first European to use movable type printing, in around 1439, and the global inventor of the mechanical printing press....
 around 1450, printing — and printers — proliferated throughout Europe.

Today, printers are found throughout the world.






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A printer is a company that provides commercial printing
Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....
 services, often also offering typesetting
Typesetting

Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in graphic form on paper or some other Recording medium. Before the advent of desktop publishing, typesetting of printed material was produced in print shops by compositors or typesetters working by hand, and later with machines....
 and book-binding services. The term can also refer to people who operate printing press
Printing press

A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a medium , thereby transferring an image. The mechanical systems involved were first assembled in Germany by the goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg around 1439, based on existing screw-presses used to press cloth, grapes etc., and possibly to print wood...
es, or who run printing companies.

With the invention of the moveable type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg
Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a Germany goldsmith and printer who is credited with being the first European to use movable type printing, in around 1439, and the global inventor of the mechanical printing press....
 around 1450, printing — and printers — proliferated throughout Europe.

Today, printers are found throughout the world. They include:

  • Newspaper printers are often owned by newspaper publishers
  • Magazine printers are usually independent of magazine publishers
  • Book printers, often not directly connected with book publishers
  • Stationery printers
  • Packaging printers
  • Commercial printers, often offering digital and traditional printing services


Someone who makes artistic prints, usually by hand in limited runs, is known as a printmaker.

Famous printers

  • Johannes Gutenberg
    Johannes Gutenberg

    Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a Germany goldsmith and printer who is credited with being the first European to use movable type printing, in around 1439, and the global inventor of the mechanical printing press....
  • John Baskerville
    John Baskerville

    John Baskerville was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-m?ch?, but he is best remembered as a printer and typographer....
  • Jodocus Badius
    Jodocus Badius

    Jodocus Badius was a pioneer of the printing industry.Sometimes called Badius Ascensius from the village of Asse, near Brussels, where he was born, he became an eminent printer at Paris....
  • Henry Estienne
    Henry Estienne

    Henri Estienne, also known as Henricus Stephanus or Henry Stephens, was a 16th-century Parisian printing.Henry Estienne, the eldest son of the great Robert Estienne, was born in Paris in 1528 , and died at Lyon in 1598....
  • William Caxton
    William Caxton

    William Caxton was an England merchant, diplomat, writer and printer . He was the first English person to work as a printer and the first person to introduce a printing press into England....
  • Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and Printer , Satire, list of political philosophers, politician, scientist, inventor, activism, statesman, and diplomacy....
  • Colard Mansion
    Colard Mansion

    Colard Mansion was a 15th century Flanders scribe and printer who worked together with William Caxton. He is known as the first printer of a book with copper engravings, and as the printer of the first books in English and French....
  • Aldus Manutius
    Aldus Manutius

    Aldus Pius Manutius , the Latinized name of Teobaldo Mannucci, sometimes called Aldus Manutius, the Elder to distinguish him from his grandson, Aldus Manutius the Younger) was an Italian Renaissance humanism who became a printer and publisher when he founded the Aldine Press at Venice....
  • Francysk Skaryna
    Francysk Skaryna

    Francysk Skaryna was a Belarusians famous as one of the first printing in Eastern Europe, laying groundwork for the development of Belarusian language....
  • Christoffel Plantijn
  • Johann Froben
    Johann Froben

    File:Printer's Device of Johannes Froben.jpgJohann Froben, in Latin: Johannes Frobenius , was a famous printer and publisher in Basel....
  • Hieronymus Froben
    Hieronymus Froben

    Hieronymus Froben was a famous pioneering printer in Basel and the eldest son of Johann Froben. He was educated at the University of Basel and traveled widely in Europe....
  • Wright Brothers
    Wright brothers

    The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur , were two United States who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful fixed-wing aircraft and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air Flight#Mechanical flight, on December 17, 1903....
  • Charlotte Guillard
    Charlotte Guillard

    Charlotte Guillard was the first woman printer of importance. She was the first European woman printer of history. Guillard worked at the famous Soleil d?Or printing house from 1502 until her death....