Gutenberg: first modern inkmaker? the inventor of movable type probably also created the first workable printing ink. (Ink).(History of Johann Gutenberg)(Brief Article)

Graphic Arts Monthly | February 1, 2002| | Copyright

In past years, I have occasionally used my first column of the year to write about some aspect of the history of ink, thus giving readers a better perspective as to how the ink industry evolved. This month's column is about ink development efforts made by that pioneer of printing, Johann Gutenberg.

Mark Barbour, curator of the International Printing Museum, Carson, Calif., notes that Gutenberg, credited with inventing movable type in Germany in the 1450s, was also the probable inventor of the first workable printing ink.

Barbour points out that of the four ...

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