The History of the Printing Industry

Since gutenberg made it possible to mass produce writing, the price of books collapsed. Gutenberg tested his machine by printing a 28 page school book but quickly moved to a magnificent edition of the bible in latin enneus silvio piclomini,. The future pope pius the second saw some of guttenberg's bible in 14 55. Picolomini praised him a marvellous man and noted the type was so clear it could be read without glasses, and that all copies had been sold. More books were printed in the first century after the printing press than had been hand copied in the entire pre gutenberg history of europe.