Gutenburg Printing And Its Impact On The European Modern Culture

In 1448. the German goldsmith Gutenberg invented the printing press including ink, printing, a set of metal printing , at the same time, the first press of the West was established.His invention was the product of this community and his times. First,Renaissance and the emergence of university rouse people' s strong desire forknowledge, but the writing written on parchment was scarce and expensive, far frommeeting people's needs. Secondly, paper from China with the introduction of paper inWestern European and the mass production provided the material carrier for theinvention of printing, to resolve the issue of what was printed in, and Chineseinspiration and the Western European printing technology laid a solid technicalfoundation, the issue of how to print was also settled. In this way, the printingproduced as a matter of course. Since then, due to the merits of fast, large and cheapto copy the text, printing quickly spread to Italy, France, Britain and other Eurpeanareas, had an impact on the community at that time. The invention of printingpromoted the prosperity of the publishing industry, not only a large number of bookswere published, but newspapers and periodicals were also produced. The invention ofprinting also made the various ancient and contemporary books to meet with thepublic, contributed greatly to the dissemination of academic thinking. As for theMartin·Luther' s sensitiveness and making full use of it, printing also promoted theReformation. Because the text printed by machine is unchanged rugularly. gradually.vocabulary, grammar, structure, spelling and punctuation of all kinds of language publications were increasingly unified, the languages of publications were increasingly unified, the language of Western European countries were promoted to standardization and systematization. In addition, the invention of printing on education and culture and other areas have had a profoud and long-term historical impact.