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The original copy-paste: press ink to surface, repeat until a thought becomes a thousand.
means The process of transferring ink (or digital data to a page) to reproduce text or images in multiple copies.
from From 'print,' via Old French 'preinte' (impression, mark pressed in), from 'preindre,' rooted in Latin 'premere' — to press. The word carried the simple physical act of pressing before it ever meant books: a seal pressed into wax, a foot pressed into mud, long before Gutenberg pressed metal type into paper in the 1400s and gave the word its mass-production destiny.
- first bestseller
- Gutenberg Bible, roughly 180 copies, took years
- literacy boom
- European literacy tripled within a century of print
- modern cousin
- 3D printing builds objects layer by layer, no ink
- word origin
- press derives from Latin pressare, to squeeze