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National Printing Office (NPO) is one of 3 Recognized Government Printers in the Philippines (together with Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the Apo Production Unit). It was first established in 1901 as the Philippine Bureau of Printing.
Typographic printing in the Philippines was indigenous, not imported from other countries it was recognized by Wenceslao Retana as "the semi-invention" of the press in the country. In 1625, the press open up at the Colegio de Santo Tomás , soon became a university, and had since been known as the UST Press.
The post office, circa pre-1930 An aerial view of the post office, 1932. Manila's first post office was established in 1767. During the early years of the American occupation, the Philippine Commission created the Bureau of Posts, which later became the Philippine Postal Corporation, through Act No. 462 issued on September 15, 1902.
Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor decided to make the most of ...
An excerpt from an early printed page. Gothic type. From a 31-line Indulgence, presumably printed by Johan Gutenberg at Mainz (from the Göttingen copy). The 31-line Indulgence is a plenary indulgence granted by Pope Nicholas V and issued in Erfurt on 22 October 1454.
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]
The Philippines eventually joined the Universal Postal Union, this time as a sovereign entity, on January 1, 1922. 2017 stamp dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the corporation. The Manila Central Post Office building, the headquarters of the Bureau of Posts, was constructed in its present-day Neo-Classical style in 1926.
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