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The chinese began carving into clay and wood blocks as a way of printing Chinese scrolls.
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Marco Polo brought idea of woodblock printing to Italy. Italians manipulated the blocks to create rased letters and images that were inked creating printed pages of words and images.
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Gutenberg altered an olive press that presses olives for oils into a machine that presses a printing block into sheets of paper below it. This made it possible to print multiple copes. Information now had the potential to be universally known.
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The first successful newspaper appears in Boston in 1705 entitled The Boston News Letter. Information was now able to spread quickly and easily.
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Xerox puts first xerographic photocopier on the market.
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First laser printer is introduced by IBM.
