| A | B |
|---|
| Letterpress | The type of press, made of wood, first used by Gutenberg |
| Charles, 3rd Earl Stanhope | created the first cast iron press |
| Columbian | 1817, American. Replaced the screw with a lever. |
| Washington | 1829, American. Tracked bed moved mechanically. |
| Job press | 1850s. Foot treadle and automatic inking. |
| Friedrich Koenig | Invented the cylinder, which pressed the paper against the type evenly. |
| Rotary Web Press | 2 Cylinders allowed printing on both sides simultaneously. |
| The Times of London | Was the first to use steam and cylinder presses on a large scale. |
| Stereotyping | Invented by William Gedd in 1725; a mould of type preserved from each page to avoid having to reset the type. |
| Print Runs in America c.18th c. | 300-1500 copies |
| Print Runs in America, c.1850 | 30,000-40,000 copies |
| James Fenimore Cooper | first professional novelist in America |
| 1,100 sheets per hour | Output of the Cylinder press in 1814. |
| 300 sheets per hour | Output of the Stanhope Press. |
| Benjamin Franklin | author of the New England Courant and the Pennsylvania Gazette |
| Linotype machine | Replaced hand typesetting; instead the text was composed using a keyboard. |
| William Morris | Leader in the Arts and Crafts movement and private printer. |
| Caslon | Famously legible and boring type, ancestor of Times Roman. |
| Didot | Parisian printers who popularized the point system. |
| Cuala Press | Private press in Ireland noted for publishing Yeats, Lady Gregory and others. |
| Wine Press | A design source for Gutenberg's press. |
| Screw | Method of making the impression prior to the invention of the counterweighted lever. |
| 4,000 sheets per hour. | Output of the four cylinder press created by Applegarth and Cowper in 1828. |
| 2,500 sheets per hour. | Output of the Job press. |
| Giambattista Bodoni | Famous for typecutting non-Roman alphabets. |
| John Baskerville | Published a large print book of Common Prayer. |
| John Peter Zenger | Was sued for libel in NY and won after it was argued that the truth was not libellous. |
