Short answers, pulled from the story.
The earliest known form of printing evolved during the sixth century. This technique predates paper by millennia and established the first method for mass reproducing images.
The first completely surviving printed book is the Diamond Sutra of 868. It was uncovered from Dunhuang and represents a key milestone in East Asian printing history.
Richard M. Hoe invented the steam-powered rotary printing press in 1843 with a throughput of 8,000 pages per hour. His original design operated at up to 2,000 revolutions per hour where each revolution deposited four page images.
Sultan Selim I issued a decree in 1515 under which the practice of printing was punishable by death. Ibrahim Muteferrika later established the first press for printing in Arabic in the Ottoman Empire against opposition from calligraphers.
By 2005 digital printing accounted for approximately nine percent of the 45 trillion pages printed annually around the world. Inkjet technology sprays ink onto paper to create desired images using bubble-jet or piezoelectric methods.