History of printing Paris. In 1473 Kasper Straube published the "Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474" in Kraków. Dirk Martens set up a printing press in Aalst (Flanders) in 1473. He printed a book about the two lovers of Enea Piccolomini who became Pope Pius II. In 1476 a printing press was set up in England by William Caxton. The Italian Juan Pablos set up an imported press in Mexico City in 1539. The first printing press in Southeast Asia was set up in the Philippines by the Spanish in 1593. The Rev. Jose Glover intended to bring the first printing press to England's
History of printing and publishing in Dhaka patha -kobi to extinction. The patha-kobitas published from Dhaka were of Kushai Sarkar's "Nanabidho Gaan" ("নানাবিধ গান") that were printed from Samantak Jantra in 1892 and Bipin Chand Gopes "Jhorer Gaan" ("ঝড়ের গান") printed by Jagabandhu Dey from Garib Jantra. History of printing and publishing in Dhaka It can not be said with certainty where the first printing press was set up in Bangladesh. It is conjectured that the first printing press in Bangladesh was in Rangpur during 1847, about away from Dhaka. The first printed piece from this printing press was a weekly newspaper named "Rangapur Barttabaha" ("রঙ্গপুর বার্ত্তাবহ")