Printer (publisher)
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The word printer is used to describe a company that provides commercial printing services, involving typesetting, printing and book-binding.
Formerly, it referred to persons who operated printing presses, or ran printing companies. Many of these people would today be referred to as publishers.
Someone who makes artistic prints, usually by hand in limited runs, is known as a printmaker.
Famous printers
- Johann Gutenberg
- John Baskerville
- Jodocus Badius
- Henry Estienne
- William Caxton
- Benjamin Franklin
- Aldus Manutius
- Francysk Skaryna
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