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It was a Buddist book in Dunhange, China that was printed by a slab carved to write one message, so you could write that one message several times
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Separated blocks were developed, so they could be arranged to make whatever you wanted to say, and they could be reused. This was discovered in Yingshan, Hubei, China
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It was invented by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany. The first thing he used it for was to print out a Latin language Bible.
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The first press to be made with an iron frame rather than a wood one, was invented by Charles Stanhope. This press could print larger sheet of paper and was more durable
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Charles Babbage invented the first mechanical printer
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This was a brand new type of printer that could print on demand and could be used everywhere, office, schools, and at home
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Gary Starkweather invented the first laser printer by modifying a Xerox model 7000 copier
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The first person to file a patent for this invention was a Japanese lawyer named Dr. Hideo Kodama, but he was denied. Later, in 1986, American inventor Charles Hill was the first to get a patent for this machine.
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This was the first mini electronic printer
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This is how I believe the future printer will look like and it's improvements:
~Works faster
~Ink last longer
~Wireless
~Smaller
~Lightweight
And these are the functions:
~Normal Printing straight from a device
~3D printing
~Copying