Peter Schöffer or Petrus Schoeffer was an early German printer, who studied in Paris and worked as a manuscript copyist in 1451 before apprenticing with Johannes Gutenberg and joining Johann Fust, a goldsmith, lawyer, and money lender.
Peter Schöffer
Schöfferhofer Hefeweizen
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press enabled a much faster rate of printing. The printing press later spread across the world, and led to an information revolution and the unprecedented mass-spread of literature throughout Europe. It had a profound impact on the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, and humanist movements.
Posthumous portrait of Gutenberg. No contemporary depictions survive.
A 16th-century copper engraving depiction of Gutenberg
The Gutenberg Bible, now housed at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
"Modern Book Printing" − a Berlin sculpture commemorating its inventor Gutenberg