decline of demand for manuscripts & devt.. of printing press

DECLINE OF DEMAND FOR HANDWRITTEN MANUSRIPT
1)As the demand for books increased ,booksellers all over europe began exporting books to many different countries.
2)The production of handwritten manuscript could not satisfy the ever increasing demand for book.
3)copying was an expensive, laborious and time consuming business.
4)Manuscrupt were fragile,difficult to handle and coulnd not be carried around or read easily ,their circulation therefore remained limited.

DEVLOPMENT OF PRESS BY GUTENBERG
1)Gutenberg was the son of merchant who developed the first known printing press in 1430.
2)From his childhood he had seen the wine and olive presses.
3)He had learnt the art of publishing stones ,became the master gold smith and also acquired the experise to create lead moulds used for making trinkets.
4)The olive press provided him the model for printing press and moulds were used for casting the metal types for the metals of the alphbets.
By1448 he perfected the system.