Definition of "printing press" [printing press]

• A machine that transfers lettering or images by contact with various forms of inked surface onto paper or similar material fed into it in various ways. (noun)

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• "Just as the printing press Johannes Gutenberg invented five centuries ago paved the way for the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Internet has provided the technological basis for a revolution just as radical and far-reaching, propelling communications, commerce, education, recreation, and information—including news—into a new universe."
• "Polyglot printing press whence, for some centuries, issued liturgical and catechetical books, printed in a multitude of alphabets."
• "We can no longer regard, with Bacon, the compass, gunpowder, and the printing press as occurring sud - denly or as constituting the instruments of sudden change."