Speed/Capacity: ~400 pages/hour

Impact: Limited circulation; text-heavy; minimal imagery.

Speed/Capacity: ~4,000 pages/hour

Impact: Rise of daily newspapers; wider reach.

Speed/Capacity: ~25,000 pages/hour

Impact: Explosion of illustrated weeklies; mass literacy support.

Speed/Capacity: 5x-10x manual speed

Impact: Drastic reduction in book/newspaper cost; text density increases.

Speed/Capacity: Mass scale

Impact: The era of the billboard and the color magazine.