'''Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg''' (k. 1395 – 3 Pebruari 1468) marupakanmarupoan surang tukang basi, tukang ameh, tukang cetak, jo panabik [[Jerman]] nan mampakanakan pacetakan ka [[Eropa]]. Panamuannyo, ialahiyolah alatalaik cetak mekanik nan uruihnyo dapatdapek diatua, alah manyabaukan bamulonyo [[Repolusi Pacetakan]] dan sacaro laweh dipandang sabagai kajadian nan terpentingtapantiang dalam abaik moderen.<ref name="Man of the Millenium">Caliak ''[http://rhsweb.org/library/1000PeopleMillennium.htm People of the Millenium]'' untuak pambahasan tantang pangakuan laweh ko. Taun 1999, A&E Network manampekan ''[http://www.wmich.edu/mus-gened/mus170/biography100 Gutenberg no. 1 on their "People of the Millennium" countdown]''. Taun 1997, majalah Time–Life mamiliah ''[http://www.mainz.de/gutenberg/g2000.htm Gutenberg's invention as the most important of the second millennium]''; hal sarupo bakecekan ampek jurnalis takamuko AS pado resume taun 1998 mareka ''[http://rhsweb.org/library/1000PeopleMillennium.htm 1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking The Men and Women Who Shaped The Millennium]''. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07090a.htm Johann Gutenberg] entry of the [[Catholic Encyclopedia]] manyabuikan panamuannyo lah maagiah pangaruah budayo nan indak tatandiangi sajak masuak era Kristen.</ref> Panamuan ko lai baparan basa dalam pakambangan [[Renainsans]], [[Repormasi]], [[Abaik Pancarahan]], jo [[Repolusi Ilimu Pangatauan]], sarato malatakan dasar material untuak tagaknyo ekonomi moderen nan basandikan pangatauan jo malawehnyo pangatauan ka urang rami.<ref>{{harvnb|McLuhan|1962}}; {{harvnb|Eisenstein|1980}}; {{harvnb|Febvre|Martin|1997}}; {{harvnb|Man|2002}}</ref>
Gutenberg adolah urang Eropa patamo nan manggunoan alaik cetak nan uruihnyo dapek diatua ko labiah-kurang di taun 1439. Inyo manamuan ide-ide untuak proses cetak-mancetak masal, manggunoan tinta minyak, mamampaaikan kayu untuak uruih masin pacetakan nan bantuaknyo sarupo bana jo sekrup panakan pado alaik patanian di maso ko. Gabungan hal-hal kasadonyo tu manjadi suatu sistem praktis nan mamungkinkan produksi masal buku-buku cetak nan aragonyo ekonomis bagi pancetak jo pambaconyo. Panamuan metode cetak Gutenberg marupoan pangambangan nan sangaik basa tahadok panulihan manuskrip jo tangan, iyolah metode produksi buku nan wakatu iko diadoan di Eropa. Teknologi cetak Gutenberg kudian manyebar dangan capek di Eropa sadonyo dan sudah tu juo di saluruah dunia.
