Who was the Greatest Person in History of Printing?

[D Ink Man]

Please, just one name please.

I have mine and it will not change. Do not want to skew the answers.

Thank you, should make for very interesting discussion once the players are laid out.

D Ink Man

 

[JimBob53]

Pi Chang (inventor of moveable type) and Gutenberg (developer of the printing press)

 

[Greg_Firestone]

[FONT=arial, sans-serif]Gutenberg [/FONT]

 

[chevalier]

Dr. Rudolf Hell

 

[dabob]

[h=1][FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Bi Sheng 1041 - 1048 (Wiki) invented movable type in China but it stayed local . . . Guttenberg 1468 invented it & the Press in Europe from where it grew throughout the modern world - but for todays world .. . the team that developed Postscript . . . [/FONT][/h]

 

[slush11]

Following...

 

[BJONES]

Frank Romano, clearly.

 

[Keith]

Benjamin Franklin

 

[dabob]

Sorry can't help myself . . . I nominate Paul White . . . .

 

[D Ink Man]

I reveal> Alois Senefelder

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[kansasquaker]

No votes for Benny Landa? Really? I'm shocked.

 

[danremaley]

By far Felix Brunner.

 

[davarino]

I have to add two names (breaking the rules): Charles Fenerty and most assuredly Friedrich Gottlob Keller. If you don't know who they are, you should... they burst the one greatest wall that printers faced in making printed matter available to the masses. God bless 'em both: the poor were finally able to buy books and newspapers and still feed their families.

 

[Alois Senefelder]

I suggest the Fourdrinier Brothers - papermaking machine, long before - 1) Charles Fenerty and Friedrich Gottlob Keller

 

[VAprint]

Mr. Joseph Krufka - high school Graphic Arts teacher

 

[Alois Senefelder]

My next name is - Friedrich Konig , making the first Letterpress Cylinder Press

 

[Karl Jennex]

[h=1]Ottmar Mergenthaler[/h]

 

[CaseyVee]

Gordo!! without a doubt!

 

[gordo]

Gordo!! without a doubt!

Har-de-har-har, very funny.

Personally I think the question "Who was the Greatest Person in History of Printing?" is spurious if not down right silly. Unless D Ink Man has some kind of Zen-like twist in mind (which I doubt).

 

[chevalier]

Personally I think the question "Who was the Greatest Person in History of Printing?" is spurious if not down right silly.

Of course it is but it's pretty neat seeing all these names pop up in praise.