the.com/printing press

means A machine that transfers inked text and images onto paper via mechanical pressure, allowing a single set master to be reproduced in multiples quickly and uniformly.

from From 'print' (via French 'preinte', from Latin 'premere', to press or squeeze) plus 'press', the very device — originally a screw-driven mechanism borrowed from winepresses and papermaking — used to force that pressure evenly onto a page. The pairing is almost literal: it names itself by what it does, press making print. The breakthrough usually credited to a 15th-century German goldsmith wasn't the press itself, which already existed for cloth and wine, but combining it with durable movable metal type, turning a squeezing tool into a copying engine.