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printing press

device for evenly printing ink onto a print medium
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printing press
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Summary

printing press is a product[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of product entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,185 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Johannes Gutenberg[3]
  • Subclass of: machine press[4]
  • Commons category: Printing presses[5]
  • Time of discovery or invention: 1439[6]
  • Commons gallery: Printing press[7]
  • Location of creation: Strasbourg[8]
  • Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[9]
  • Used by: printer[10], book printer[11]
  • History of topic: history of printing press[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4/People[13]

Why It Matters

printing press has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

Johannes Gutenberg printer product

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . softsolutionservice.com. softsolutionservice.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → product
    Used by → —
    Aliases → —
    History of topic → history of printing press
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 18808, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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