Giovanni Battista Pasquali, a leading Italian printer in eighteenth-century.

Despite this proliferation, printing centres soon emerged; thus, one third of the Italian printers published in Venice.

Ottaviano Petrucci (18 June 1466 - 7 May 1539) was an Italian printer.

Erasmo Oneglia (1853-1934) was an Italian printer, born in Turin, who was also a successful stamp forger in the 1890s and early 1900s.

May 7 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (born 1466)

Giuseppe Allegrini was an Italian printer and engraver.

Early issues were printed by De La Rue, but today a variety of Maltese and Italian printers are used.

Vittorio Baldini (died 21 February 1618) was an Italian printer and engraver.

Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari (c. 1508 - 1578) was a 16th-century Italian printer active in Venice.

French books nonetheless began to follow the format established by Italian printers, and Lyon and Paris became the new centers of activity.