FAITS SUR PRESSES PAPIERS REVEALED

Metal presses, developed late in the 18th century, used steam to drive a cylinder press. Flatbed presses, emerging early in the 19th century, used Petit appartement beds to hold the type and either a reciprocating platen or a cylinder to hold paper.Gutenberg took up these crème-flung strands, combined them into Nous intact and functioning system,