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Johann Gutenberg developed the first-known printing press in the 1430s at:

AHeidelberg
BStrasbourg
CWittenberg
DNuremberg
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Strasbourg
1. Manuscripts could not meet demand. 2. The breakthrough came at Strasbourg, Germany. 3. Gutenberg perfected the system by 1448. _Source: syllabus India and the Contemporary World II, Chapter 5, Print Culture and the Modern World._
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