7 sentences with “presses”

Printing presses tended to operate in large cities and smaller independent towns, especially in the Holy Roman Empire.

Printing spread rapidly. Within about twenty years there were printing presses in all the major cities of western and southern Europe.

Likewise, once new printing presses were built in cities and towns outside Meinz, it became cheaper to buy a printed Bible than one written in the scribal tradition.

In areas with relatively relaxed censorship, such as the Netherlands and Switzerland, numerous small presses operated during the 18th century, producing illegal literature.

A printing press owner was delighted when another company wanted to buy one of his used presses. After careful mathematics, he settled on a price of $2.5 million and made his case.

The first time Plotkin flew to Kwamalasamutu in 1982 with his backpack and plant presses, the Tyrians greeted him with suspicion. They called him pananakiri, which means "stranger".

Simultaneously, new and more advanced printing presses and cheaper paper made newspapers and magazines available to a mass reading public. This encouraged the spread not only of information and news, but also of shared written languages.