Best evidence to support the statement that the printing press made it cheaper t produce books. The most famous invention from the Renaissance is the one people still use today. The printing press is a machine that speedily makes multiple copies of the same book, newspaper, or picture. Before the printing press, books had to be copied by hand, which took a lot of time and was very expensive. The printing press was invented in China between 500 CE and 700 CE. In the 1440s, a German metalworker named Johannes Gutenberg bullt the first printing press in Europe. He also invented a new way of printing using metal moveable type. Each letter and punctuation mark was made out of a tiny piece of metal. To print a page, Gutenberg arranged the individual pieces of type in the correct order. From Lisa Mullins, Science in the Renaissance, Copyright 2009 by Crabtree Publishing Company