The Romans had stamps in the 440 a.C. By 1234 a craftsman in Corea invented a printer of metal but It was rarelly used.
Then, in 1440 Johannes Guttenberg, in Europe, invented the modern printing press.
Eventually, another German, created the typographic printing press.
Finally the new means of communation appeared in 1885.
Nowadays digital printers are used all around the world.