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ENS
(ens)
In
printing - spaces equal to half the width of ems
Common
clues: Printer's
measures; Printing widths; Type widths; Dash lengths; Half-picas
Crossword
puzzle frequency:
once a year
Frequency
in English language:
55481 / 86800
Video:
Johann
Gutenberg
A
printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an
inked surface resting upon a medium (such as paper or cloth),
thereby transferring an image. The systems involved were first
assembled in Germany by the goldsmith Johann Gutenberg in ca.
1439. Although both woodblock printing and movable type printing
technologies were already developed in ancient China and later
Korea in East Asia a few hundred years prior, they did not use a
press like that of Gutenberg. Printing methods based on
Gutenberg's printing press spread rapidly throughout first Europe
and then the rest of the world. It eventually replaced most
versions of block printing, making it the most used format of
modern movable type. As a method of creating reproductions for
mass consumption, the printing press has been superseded by the
advent of offset printing.
Printing
press from 1811, photographed in Munich, Germany
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