NOUN
- German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)
How To Use Johannes Gutenberg In A Sentence
- Nicholas V died in 1455, unaware of Johannes Gutenberg's invention of printing with moveable metal types in Mainz, Germany.
- Then, in mid-fifteenth-century Germany, printer Johannes Gutenberg happened upon a discovery: By creating type pieces out of metal -- known as movable type -- and arranging them to form words, you could make multiple copies of a document far faster than a monk could write. 'The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging'