Erhard Ratdolt (1442-1528) was an early German printer from Augsburg.

From 1475 to 1478 he was in partnership with two other German printers.

The letter was printed by Eucharius Silber, a German printer in Rome.

Lotter was the last name of a family of German printers, intimately connected with the Reformation.

Both elements were for the first time successfully implemented by the German printer Friedrich Koenig in a series of press designs devised between 1802 and 1818.

Heinrich Zell (died 1560) was a German printer and cartographer.

Fust was a German printer.

About 1472 he associated with him the German printer, Johann von Köln.

Tauchnitz was the name of a family of German printers and publishers.

Rapidly, printing spread from Germany by emigrating German printers, but also by foreign apprentices returning home.