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
Logographic printing Logographic printing Logographic printing is a form of moveable type printing where the font comprises words or parts of words rather than single letters. The system, whilst not widely adopted, was used to produce a number of books in the eighteenth century, as well as "The Times" or "The Daily Universal Register" as it was originally known. The edition of 12 March 1788, for example was "printed Logographically" by "R. Nutkins" at the Logographic Press, Printing House Square, Blackfriars. The press was owned, though, by John Walter, the founder of "The Times" who had acquired the printing system from its