| A | B |
|---|
| 150/hr | guttenberg press |
| 200/her | Stanhope's press |
| 400/hr | Koenig's cylinder press |
| 4,000/hr | Richard Hoe's Small Cylinder Press |
| 8,000/hr | Hoe's Rotary Press |
| 30,000/hr | Bullock's web-fed press |
| 1436 | Guttenberg invents the press |
| 1812 | Clymer "Columbian" press introduced |
| first with no screw | Clymer's press |
| first cylinder press - steam powered | Koenig |
| bed rolls under the cylinder | cylinder press |
| Hoe | single small cylinder press |
| rotary press | two cylinder's squeezed paper between |
| cuts and folds | web fed press |
| flying eagle with levers and counterweights | Clymer's counterweight |
| used springs | "Washington" press |
| Samuel Rust | invents the "Washington" press |
| stereotyping | makes a copy of the full page of type |
| 1861 | stereotyping |
| rotary press | paper pressed between two rollers |
 | Bayer |
 | Curtis |
 | Mercator |
| Redoute | Redoute,  |
| Grandjean |  |
| Waldseemuller |  |
| Weinmann |  |
