Show PRINTERS TO CELEBRATE tercentennial anniversary salt lake tribune printers week begins today this is the tercentenary anniversary of the american beginning of an industry that has had a greater influence on civilization than any other trade or profession upon its inception development and employment civilization has made its greatest strides and risen to its highest levels in disseminating facts spreading the influence of religion educating the masses exposing infamy and turning the light on tyrants the art of printing has performed services no other mortal agency could have accomplished in a million years printing with a flint a piece of charcoal or a stylus was practiced by primeval inhabitants of the earth when ideas first began to clamor for expression and preservation in the course of time wooden blocks were carved and impressions squeezed but it was not until movable types were invented that printing as it is now was born johann or guttenburg cut a crude font of letters from which public documents were printed in 1454 alt although bough experiments had been carried on for ut least 10 years before notice was taken of the matter machinery for making impressions was finally perfected and utilized by william caxton who issued several books filin his press but gave it up because material returns did not justify the necessary outlay three hundred years ago the first printing press set up in the american colonies was put into operation by stephen daye an englishman who came to massachusetts in 1638 and started running off psalms and almanacs the following year he was ame leas first printer but his work was so crude the publishers put samuel green in his place who Gub subsequently employed daye as a journeyman president birkinshaw and secretary hendrik romeyn of the printing industry of utah have arranged a program and engaged speakers to participate in the national observance of the event |