Results of the European Printing Press

The invention of the European printing press allowed for anyone, not just royalty or the government, to mass produce and distribute a message to a vast amount of people without restriction or censorship. The printing press opened a door which allowed anyone to voice out their ideas and spread them like wildfire by restructuring the entire process and market of printing and selling books. Another result of the printing press was that many classical texts were able to be preserved and given lots of exposure. For example, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, large amounts of the texts recovered after the war were able to be copied and preserved because of the printing press, a task which would have taken much longer and been extraordinarily harder if the printing press had not been invented.