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Bust of Johannes Mentelin in the Humanistenbibliothek in Schlettstadt.
About 1458 Johannes Mentelin, formerly a scribe and illuminator, decided to embrace the new technology, and set up a printing press in Strasbourg. Mentelin's was the second printing press known to have been established after the Gutenberg/Fust and Schöffer press in Mainz.
