PRINT CULTURE AND MODERN WORLD

• Gutenberg invention led to an increase in literacy rates as people could read printed materials without relying on scribes or priests.
• The printing press played a significant role in spreading information during the Renaissance period.
• The printing press played a significant role in shaping modern society by promoting education, spreading information, and fostering intellectual exchange.
• Increased literacy rates led to an increase in demand for printed materials such as newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets.
• Books became cheaper and more widely available as a result of printing technology.
• Books became cheaper and easier to produce, leading to an increase in literacy rates.
• The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg.
• The availability of printed materials facilitated the spread of ideas and knowledge across different regions and cultures.
• The printing press allowed for the mass production of books, making them more affordable and accessible to the general public.
• the earliest kind of print technology was developed in China , Japan and Korea
• From AD 594, Books in China were printed by rubbing the sheet against the inked surface of the wooden block
• The traditional Chinese Accordion Book was stitched and folded to the side because both the sides of the thin and porous sheet of paper could not be printed
• In Europe, the first book that was printed using movable type was the Gutenberg Bible (1456)
• by 17th century, the use of print diversified or modified in China because of a prospering urban culture
• By the sixteenth of the century, there were over 200 million books printing houses in Italy alone
• Marco Polo was a great explorer
• The oldest Japanese book was the Buddhist Diamond Sutra
• Japanese woodblock prints are called ukiyo-e which means "pictures of the floating world"
• Ukiyo-e is an art form that depicts everyday life during the Edo period
• old name of Tokyo was Edo
• Printing of visual materials led to the publishing of intresting practices
• SCRIBES WERE NO LONGER EMPLOYED BY THE PATRONS BUT THEY WERE LARGELY EMPLOYED BY THE BOOKSELLERS
• 50 SCRIBES WERE EMPLOYED BY 1 BOOKSELLER
• GUTENBURG WAS THE SON OF A GERMAN MERCHANT
• HIS KNOWLEDGE FOR OLIVE PRESS PROVIDED HIM A MODEL FOR NEW PRINTING PRESS.
• HE USED MOULDERS FOR CASTING THE METAL TYPE FOR THE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABETS
• BY 1448, GUTENBURG PERFECTED THE SYSTEM.
• THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED BY GUTENBURG WAS THE BIBLE WHICH HE HAD PRODUCED 180 COPIES IN 3 YEARS. BY THE STANDARD OF TIME IT WAS A FAST PRODUCTION
• THE SUDDEN CHANGE BY INCREASING THE PRODUCTION OF BOOKS BY PRINTING PRESS IS CALLED PRINT REVOLUTION
• THERE WAS A DEVELOPEMENT FROM OLD TECHNIQUES OF PRINTING , HANDPRINTING TO WOOD BLOCK PRINTING TO MECHANICAL PRINTING
• PRINT REVOLUTION IS NOT JUST A NEW WAY OF PRODUCING BOOKS. IT TRANSFORMED THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE BY CHANGING THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND RELATIONSHIP WITH AUTHORITIES AND INSTITUTIONS