A fantastic demonstration of a highly specialized skill. Those old master printers were real magicians in their time. The books, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, and other products from their presses were the fount of culture in their communities. As a research scholar, I'm grateful for the printing press and the men and women who operated them. I certainly miss the days of hot-lead type.
The smell of melting lead in the old Linotype pots in the composing rooms of newspapers used to give me a slight high. Linotypes were an amazing invention and the compositors took pride in their work. Most of these machines would have been trashed with the advent of computers but there is an indented aesthetic about the old typefaces.
True, tho one might argue that a person in the modern era reminiscing about older metal type printing is like a person at the time when metal type was prevalent reminiscing about writing books by hand or a person at the time when books were handwritten reminiscing about people having good memory and passing information orally lol.
here in India, in 10th grade we have to study about this gutenberg printing press...and this is ACTUALLY very helpful video and it was very interesting to know...💛thanks for showing us this
As much effort as it looks like it takes just to print one page or one book with that printing press compared to today, it was nothing compared to how difficult it was before the printing press was invented. When first invented, the printing press was a groundbreaking invention because prior to the invention of the printing press, books had to be painstakingly copied word for word by hand by people called scribes. If a scribe made one mistake, they had to start over and do the whole page over again, and they had to go through the whole process every time they wanted to copy a book. After the invention of the printing press however, all one had to do was create one template for each page, but once templates were made for all pages, they could use those templates over and over again to make book after book.
I'm a professor and use this video in several of my classes about early print. Incredible resource! (But I always get a little bit sad when he fumbles for a second.)
What nowadays seems like such a simple and obvious invention absolutely _revolutionized_ the spread of information back in the day. Without the printing press, the world we live in today would simply not exist. It makes you wonder what wonderful new ideas lie ahead!
Well, it was this, modern paper, the fairly limited Latin alphabet and a book as popular as the Bible all together. Really printing presses like this had been invented in China around 1000 A.D. and they were used sometimes, but the huge number of different characters, relative scarcity of material to print on and lack of a single written work as popular as the Bible meant that they never *really* took off until Gutenberg made his version. Plus making the "types" (the letters) was always a tough process, one of Gutenberg's big innovations was making them easier to produce.
@@colbyboucher6391 It was also the metal used to make the letters! They had to find an alloy that would stay even when it cooled so the letters would retain their form. There was a *lot* of hard work and technology that went into it.
i'm a college student right now and this helped me understand the printing press for an assignment i'm on... 10 years later and ur video is still so relevant, thank you!!!!
Shared this video with my grade 10 students in India as they have a lesson on Print Culture in History.. So helpful as now they can see it for themselves. ❤❤
But after that it is fast and easy to print thousands of copies within a short period of time which would take decades for a scribe to copy it letter by letter..
BTW, Gutenberg was using movable type by now; meaning a page was made up of hundreds of little letter put together like legos. Once the run for that page was complete they would create another one.
No they didn't. They just had to rearrange the letters after finishing printing hundreds of copies of the same page. Rearranging letters was actually easy and fast.
Thank you so much for recording this and sharing it. We won't have people around like him much longer, people with this knowledge. This will help future generations!
this is a really cool video, i would love to also be able to see some kind of reconstruction as to how these machines were used at peak performance by a team of skilled workers as i have to imagine they could crank it out pretty quickly
I work in a print museum in Ireland and we call the ink pads "Dabbers". Anyone who was good at applying the ink was known as a dab hand. Didn't know about the pins. Very interesting.
I actually find it rude how he just ignores questions and shushes grown ups as if they were little children. He could have just answered the question in the first place.
@@raipa111 Or those grown ups could patiently wait for such information to be given, because that is what the man is busy doing. As a museum employee/touring guide I'm sure that man has, over time, tailored and tweaked his routine to entertainingly provide all the relevant information in a structured fashion. Asking for information that is part of the routine anyway is an impatient disruption of that man's narative flow, and easily avoided by asking whatever question is left unanswered after the demonstration or tour. From experience I can tell you that most people seem to understand this.
@@karlnord1429 Well he never seemed to stop talking or take questions. And even though I agree with you, putting someone down like a schoolboy is weird and uncomfortable and at least equally as rude as talking over someone.
Thank you for publishing this demonstration video. However quaint it appears today, this kind of printing was the beginning of the information revolution in Western society. Good work!
I never really fathomed the meaning of "moveable parts" 🤔🤫🤔 so clearly as watching it demonstrated in the video!👌🏽 This makes it so much easier to capture the concept in practical terms and enhances the understanding of Guternberg's printing press. Thank you for this video!
THANK YOU for posting this! I am just amazed at the working of the press, and you did a pretty good job pulling there! You definitely wouldn't need the gym if it was your job, huh? Thank you truly. I'm going to show this to my history students as we study world-changing inventions!
The man doing the demo was great, to the lady pulling the pring handle, how would you like doing that all day, LOL. Very first printing presses were a real labor of love.
I love this dude's joke. Especially the puller one. He brings everyone in and gets them all curious with the word 'exotic' just for it to be an ovious name. Wow. I am fascinated by that one simple joke.
I really appreciate you as you took some effort to record it and put on youtube...Studying it in book and seeing it being performed...The experience is different☺ ..Thank you so much 😃😄
Hey this is awesome, I was reading the book How to Get Ideas by Jack Foster and I learned that actually Gutenberg mixed between the coin press and the wine press to invent this. I've even mentioned it in a book review that I am doing soon for my channel, certainly going to link to that amazing video too
Never realized it took so long even with a printing press. But in contrast to having a scribe copy it by hand this is definitely worlds faster. Only thing I wish you'd also included is: did the typeset have to be reinked between every press? I'm guessing it does. To get a quality and consistency in the prints you'd have to.
The print is amazing and just show how this one invention catapulted humans ability to attain and share knowledge exponentionally compared to all the time before.
Thank you so much for this video, I was trying to figure out how it worked since I needed to know for a school project, I appreciate this as it gave me a good understanding.
el desarrollo y ver como queda tan simetrico el trabajo realizado por gutenberg como revoluciono la forma de crear es algo asombroso como la creacion de la biblia de 42 lineas, el pensamiento que tenia era muy acertado de crear algo hermoso y perfecto mediante la imprenta en tiempo record
Thanks for sharing this. Unfortunately, some of the subtitles are wacky. At 0:06, "gensoflice" is not a word, or at least not one whose meaning I could find. At 3:31 it's dampening, not damanining. At 4:01 it's not timpin, rather timpan
Fue la generalización de la imprenta lo que consolidó el derrumbe de la era oscura, la divulgación de textos poco a poco fue extendiéndose hasta convertirse en casi algo sagrado, muy difícilmente una información que no estuviese impresa sería tomada en serio. Y la calidad de la presentación, los tipos de letras, el espaciado, la proporción, el tamaño fueron el paso que necesitaba el publico para enamorarse del contenido, y ese detalle lo agregaron los impresores artesanales, fue ahí donde se ve esa mano mágica hace que un texto se vea atractivo, interesante y legible.
This is amazing, I learned so much in history class but I never thought I would see it, Mr Quinter if you see this you should have taken us to this XD.
That looks fine and all, looks slow to us cause he's explaining every step, but obviously a skilled worked would have done all of that in 30 seconds. The part I don't get is, how did they make the stamps for the pages? I suppose it was somebody's job to very slowly aling tiny letter after tiny letter to make the stamp for each page of the entire book - I can understand that with books -a painstaking job for sure, but atleast once it is done you could make millions of copies of it -but what about for newspapers where you have to make a brand new one each day? I just fail to grasp how that would be feasible.
My fourth grade son needs to learn about the Gutenberg printing press. This video is helpful for him. But the question is how was the alphabet organized there ?
Really sad to see some of the disturbing comments below. Most of us would be on diapers lying on a bed by his age. He was sharing precious knowledge and show some damn RESPECT!
They could’ve done it earlier, but the motivation wasn’t there. Why would a feudal lord want peasants to have access to privileged knowledge? Why would an illiterate peasant care about books at all? There’s no point in making a ton of books if there’s not a ton of people who want to buy them.
China already had a simplified version of the printing press centuries before Gutenberg but they rarely ever used it for practical and aesthetic reasons.
A fantastic demonstration of a highly specialized skill. Those old master printers were real magicians in their time. The books, pamphlets, newspapers, broadsides, and other products from their presses were the fount of culture in their communities. As a research scholar, I'm grateful for the printing press and the men and women who operated them. I certainly miss the days of hot-lead type.
The smell of melting lead in the old Linotype pots in the composing rooms of newspapers used to give me a slight high.
Linotypes were an amazing invention and the compositors took pride in their work.
Most of these machines would have been trashed with the advent of computers but there is an indented aesthetic about the old typefaces.
True, tho one might argue that a person in the modern era reminiscing about older metal type printing is like a person at the time when metal type was prevalent reminiscing about writing books by hand or a person at the time when books were handwritten reminiscing about people having good memory and passing information orally lol.
Were women employed in these press in 15th century?
it's not specialized skill at all that's why it was cheap to reproduce and quickly.
making books with a scribe was high specialized.
here in India, in 10th grade we have to study about this gutenberg printing press...and this is ACTUALLY very helpful video and it was very interesting to know...💛thanks for showing us this
I am also in class 10
Right bro 2023 board
Me too
Us
Yes... I came to see the working of Gutenberg printing press after reading about it in our history book
Thank you so much. It's amazing how much effort they put into printing just one book. Makes me appreciate the technology we have today.
Yeah really just a good 4 minites to ink everything
As much effort as it looks like it takes just to print one page or one book with that printing press compared to today, it was nothing compared to how difficult it was before the printing press was invented. When first invented, the printing press was a groundbreaking invention because prior to the invention of the printing press, books had to be painstakingly copied word for word by hand by people called scribes. If a scribe made one mistake, they had to start over and do the whole page over again, and they had to go through the whole process every time they wanted to copy a book. After the invention of the printing press however, all one had to do was create one template for each page, but once templates were made for all pages, they could use those templates over and over again to make book after book.
@@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954 mah man
@@thetruthstrangerthanfictio954 this is just half the story, the bible clearly still had a lot of work to do since its coloured.
well, before this was invented the books were hand written....
I'm a professor and use this video in several of my classes about early print. Incredible resource! (But I always get a little bit sad when he fumbles for a second.)
Yeah, I had to look away while he got flustered. Poor guy. Getting old sucks.
What an amazing treat to get to hear about the Gutenburg press from someone who was around when it was invented.
I thought it was part of his theatrical controlling nature....
@@007nadineL smh
What nowadays seems like such a simple and obvious invention absolutely _revolutionized_ the spread of information back in the day. Without the printing press, the world we live in today would simply not exist. It makes you wonder what wonderful new ideas lie ahead!
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Well, it was this, modern paper, the fairly limited Latin alphabet and a book as popular as the Bible all together. Really printing presses like this had been invented in China around 1000 A.D. and they were used sometimes, but the huge number of different characters, relative scarcity of material to print on and lack of a single written work as popular as the Bible meant that they never *really* took off until Gutenberg made his version. Plus making the "types" (the letters) was always a tough process, one of Gutenberg's big innovations was making them easier to produce.
@@colbyboucher6391 It was also the metal used to make the letters! They had to find an alloy that would stay even when it cooled so the letters would retain their form. There was a *lot* of hard work and technology that went into it.
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Oh my god, I though he was gonna have a heart attack when he went blank.... Damn...
I can't continue the video past that point! It got too cringy. Help!
Me too! Im still not sure if it was a bit he was playing or a senior moment
Seriously... That was sad to see. Guy just completely lost where he was for 30 entire seconds
I came down to the comment literally because of that moment.
My heart jumped for a second, because it genuinely looked like his had just stopped
😂🤣😂🤣🤣 oh my
Lol. That guy pissed that old man off so much his mind went blank for a minute
😂
So, this guy is basically doing the 14th century version of Control + P?
no. the 16th century ctrl + P
theinsfrijonds pfft. Millennials.
If you want to get technical, the chineese first inveted the press, so the 10th century version of Control + P.
I believe the printing press was made around 1450ish. So this would make it the 15 century.
Pretty much but it is much more satisfying then just using a printer and computer to print cus its hand made
i'm a college student right now and this helped me understand the printing press for an assignment i'm on... 10 years later and ur video is still so relevant, thank you!!!!
This is amazing, I learned about this in my history class and I wanted to see exactly how it functioned!
Diana Hernandez same, wasn’t paying attention tho 😁
When your history teacher sends you here but you aren’t upset
I had no idea that so much effort was needed to create one side of a printed sheet of paper. Time consuming plus physical. So glad to have seen this.
This was amazing video and the old man was really good at explaining the process, thanks for sharing!!!
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Shared this video with my grade 10 students in India as they have a lesson on Print Culture in History.. So helpful as now they can see it for themselves. ❤❤
This is honestly the most interesting thing I've ever saw in my history class
What blows my mind is that they first had to make the metal pads with a whole print of the book page by page, so they could imprint it on paper.
But after that it is fast and easy to print thousands of copies within a short period of time which would take decades for a scribe to copy it letter by letter..
BTW, Gutenberg was using movable type by now; meaning a page was made up of hundreds of little letter put together like legos. Once the run for that page was complete they would create another one.
NOPE.
The letters could be rearranged for another page, easily.
No they didn't. They just had to rearrange the letters after finishing printing hundreds of copies of the same page. Rearranging letters was actually easy and fast.
and it had to be backwards so it would be the right way when it was printed
3:39 Printer.exe has stopped responding.
Underrated comment!!!
I love history and this was actually so interesting, thank you!
This is so incredibly simple.Nowadays it's impossible to figure how a printer really works,not only using it.
Thank you so much for recording this and sharing it. We won't have people around like him much longer, people with this knowledge. This will help future generations!
this is a really cool video, i would love to also be able to see some kind of reconstruction as to how these machines were used at peak performance by a team of skilled workers as i have to imagine they could crank it out pretty quickly
I work in a print museum in Ireland and we call the ink pads "Dabbers". Anyone who was good at applying the ink was known as a dab hand. Didn't know about the pins. Very interesting.
Interesting to learn where the term "dab hand" came from. I still use it to this day
Love how he shuts down the guy who thinks he's some kind of comedian and talks over the explanation.
I actually find it rude how he just ignores questions and shushes grown ups as if they were little children. He could have just answered the question in the first place.
@@raipa111 Or those grown ups could patiently wait for such information to be given, because that is what the man is busy doing. As a museum employee/touring guide I'm sure that man has, over time, tailored and tweaked his routine to entertainingly provide all the relevant information in a structured fashion. Asking for information that is part of the routine anyway is an impatient disruption of that man's narative flow, and easily avoided by asking whatever question is left unanswered after the demonstration or tour. From experience I can tell you that most people seem to understand this.
@@raipa111 You wait till someone's done talking to ask questions.
@@karlnord1429 Well he never seemed to stop talking or take questions.
And even though I agree with you, putting someone down like a schoolboy is weird and uncomfortable and at least equally as rude as talking over someone.
@Hanna Would you tell your children to act that way in the classroom?
One of the greatest inventions in the entire history.
As a former printer I loved this video. Thank you.
are people who do printing jobs called printers ?
Double Orts they were called like that
@@paterfamiliasgeminusiv4623 No, he's literally a printer. Probably an HP.
Thank you soo much for sharing! This video was very useful in my Art history class! I shared it with my professor and she loved it!
Nice video, Gutenberg's printing press was quite interesting.
Quite interesting!? It literally changed everything!
Thank you for publishing this demonstration video. However quaint it appears today, this kind of printing was the beginning of the information revolution in Western society. Good work!
Imagine hundreds upon thousands of pullers and beaters working in sync together
I never really fathomed the meaning of "moveable parts" 🤔🤫🤔 so clearly as watching it demonstrated in the video!👌🏽 This makes it so much easier to capture the concept in practical terms and enhances the understanding of Guternberg's printing press. Thank you for this video!
THANK YOU for posting this! I am just amazed at the working of the press, and you did a pretty good job pulling there! You definitely wouldn't need the gym if it was your job, huh? Thank you truly. I'm going to show this to my history students as we study world-changing inventions!
My prof showed us this video in Typography class and I lowkey got ASMR and here I am watching it again to fall asleep
anyone find this so satisfying?
Sound like asmr
It’s unintentional same.
Great video! Thank you for bringing a part of the museum for us to learn from!
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Marvellous. It changes my built in image about Guttenberg's machine,which is inspired by illustrations and images.It is very realistic
I was reading about Gutenberg and ended in the print-books history, this is amazing!
The man doing the demo was great, to the lady pulling the pring handle, how would you like doing that all day, LOL. Very first printing presses were a real labor of love.
thanks for showing this amazing centuries old procedure of printing.
I love this dude's joke. Especially the puller one. He brings everyone in and gets them all curious with the word 'exotic' just for it to be an ovious name. Wow. I am fascinated by that one simple joke.
Invention of printing Machine is a revolution. It has made knowledge secure on the books. Thanks for the contribution.
I really appreciate you as you took some effort to record it and put on youtube...Studying it in book and seeing it being performed...The experience is different☺ ..Thank you so much 😃😄
And this was a technological revolution for how _quickly_ and _easily_ is made book making.
This guy is so adorably dorky. I could honestly listen to him all day.
My mom walked by when it was at 2:05....my door is closed...speakers on....Thanks. How did I get here anyway
ha dont worry mate, most of us have had similar stories.
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That is so cool. This is the first time I've seen this done. How amazing it is to learn stuff like this. Wow!!!
An amazing and underrated invention... the reason we were ever able to make books! Wow...
I wouldn't call it underrated. Every kid knows the name Guttenberg. He's certainly more famous than the dude who invented television.
You would think every kid would know it but especially with the poor education system in my country, the kids don't!
+Yasmine Xo that would just be your country then, or just you
printing was invented by the chinese bi sheng. guttenberg just added a few different touches to it
Hey this is awesome, I was reading the book How to Get Ideas by Jack Foster and I learned that actually Gutenberg mixed between the coin press and the wine press to invent this. I've even mentioned it in a book review that I am doing soon for my channel, certainly going to link to that amazing video too
Thanks for sharing! Homeschool mom and daughter watching!
this is in provo! wow!
im about to start working as a pressman in springville- ill have to stop by this museum tomorrow!
Watched this in class yesterday. Somehow satisfying
That’s the same reason I’m watching this
This was the best invention ever by a man for all mankind....
Never realized it took so long even with a printing press. But in contrast to having a scribe copy it by hand this is definitely worlds faster. Only thing I wish you'd also included is: did the typeset have to be reinked between every press? I'm guessing it does. To get a quality and consistency in the prints you'd have to.
Me impresiona ver una imprenta Gutenberg siendo utilizada en estos días
The print is amazing and just show how this one invention catapulted humans ability to attain and share knowledge exponentionally compared to all the time before.
My daughter is getting ready to learn about Gutenberg & his press for 7th grade history and I wanted her to see how this cool this looked.
seventh grade? shouldn't you learn this in the sixth grade
The functioning of the printing press is wonderful.
*3:40** when the edibles kick in*
Puppet Master 🤣🤣
hahahaha tru tho!!
nice
haha 2 yrs mate how ur doin?
@@naveensundar4765 idk hope hes doing good
At 3:40 my man completely checks out and starts tripping 😂
Thank you so much for this video, I was trying to figure out how it worked since I needed to know for a school project, I appreciate this as it gave me a good understanding.
Glad it was helpful!
2:49 "Don't interrupt me, honey"
That was amazing, thanks for sharing !
I give this man props for having a straight face when he said “beater” lol
This is so cool, I was really curious about this.
4:45 the kitten!!!??? The guy who typed these subtitles needs a raise 😂😂😂
Sabrina! You are the best, thanks for documenting and sharing this incredible video!
Thank you for sharing! Very helpful for my history project. Very cool machine!
Wiki said that this is a full biography. I see nothing more than short intro. Cmon this guy was famous!
this is reminding me off my ancestors............
Yes.
For those of us who love to read, and especially the Bible this was interesting to watch.
If not for that invention, you wouldn't have this invention to watch it on either.
I demonstrated printing in Bermuda, using a Gutenberg press from 1980 to 1984, taught myself how to set type as well.
el desarrollo y ver como queda tan simetrico el trabajo realizado por gutenberg como revoluciono la forma de crear es algo asombroso como la creacion de la biblia de 42 lineas, el pensamiento que tenia era muy acertado de crear algo hermoso y perfecto mediante la imprenta en tiempo record
Thanks for sharing this.
Unfortunately, some of the subtitles are wacky. At 0:06, "gensoflice" is not a word, or at least not one whose meaning I could find. At 3:31 it's dampening, not damanining. At 4:01 it's not timpin, rather timpan
Medieval Printers are at the top of my things that need to come back list
Can someone
give ma a Base-Recipe or a Tutorial-in-Words or at least an Ingredient-List?
Greatest invention of all time ❤
hes so excited about showing the printing press and the lady in the background is just like👁👄👁
mmmmmm
Thank you for sharing this video! It helped me so much on explaining how the printing press works for my honors project.
「本好きの下剋上」で気になって見にきたけど、これ作るのすごいな
「神に祈りを！」
those letters look beautiful
Wow! I was reading about Gutenberg's revolution, now i can visually understand. Thank u. :)
This is amazing; thank you for sharing. Rgds from Brazil.
Fue la generalización de la imprenta lo que consolidó el derrumbe de la era oscura, la divulgación de textos poco a poco fue extendiéndose hasta convertirse en casi algo sagrado, muy difícilmente una información que no estuviese impresa sería tomada en serio. Y la calidad de la presentación, los tipos de letras, el espaciado, la proporción, el tamaño fueron el paso que necesitaba el publico para enamorarse del contenido, y ese detalle lo agregaron los impresores artesanales, fue ahí donde se ve esa mano mágica hace que un texto se vea atractivo, interesante y legible.
Dude might be the absolute best beater ever
0:51 is that a young Howard from the Sacremento History Museum? @SacrementoHistoryMuseum
This is amazing, I learned so much in history class but I never thought I would see it, Mr Quinter if you see this you should have taken us to this XD.
"Now listen quietly!"
**Dude's tourettes intensifies!**
I didn'nt think it was that hard!
WOW! amazing!!! thank you so much for the video.
I saw this same demonstration in Colonial Williamsburg Virginia.
I used this for reference for a research paper. Thanks, Sabrina!
Looks like it. Hard work, those seem heavy!
This is just utterly brilliant.
That looks fine and all, looks slow to us cause he's explaining every step, but obviously a skilled worked would have done all of that in 30 seconds. The part I don't get is, how did they make the stamps for the pages? I suppose it was somebody's job to very slowly aling tiny letter after tiny letter to make the stamp for each page of the entire book - I can understand that with books -a painstaking job for sure, but atleast once it is done you could make millions of copies of it -but what about for newspapers where you have to make a brand new one each day? I just fail to grasp how that would be feasible.
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My fourth grade son needs to learn about the Gutenberg printing press. This video is helpful for him. But the question is how was the alphabet organized there ?
Thank you so much for this video!!!! I am using it for my paper about Gutenberg and his printing press.
3:37 Legit question- what is going on with him just before flipping the paper? Is he having an absence-seizure? Or was something happening off camera?
My teacher showed me this in school and somehow it got recommended to be
Really sad to see some of the disturbing comments below. Most of us would be on diapers lying on a bed by his age. He was sharing precious knowledge and show some damn RESPECT!
Crazy how it took humans thousands of years to come up something as simple as just individual movable letters stamps
They could’ve done it earlier, but the motivation wasn’t there. Why would a feudal lord want peasants to have access to privileged knowledge? Why would an illiterate peasant care about books at all? There’s no point in making a ton of books if there’s not a ton of people who want to buy them.
China already had a simplified version of the printing press centuries before Gutenberg but they rarely ever used it for practical and aesthetic reasons.
rather than that, it was that that it was not economically viable, or precision required was insufficient. Even type of ink and medium are factors.
@@rclark777 Gutenberg perfected it, though, because he developed typography, the ink, and metal cast letters
@@rclark777 korea was the first using this type of printing process
what an adorable man