7. How did printing technology impact literacy and education? Solution 7. How did printing technology impact literacy and education? Printing technology impacted literacy and education. Printing transformend the world and made very important changes. Previously people don\'t have much access to information. They used to write. So, the books are expensive. In 15th century Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing machine and made it available to world. Not all are rich enough to buy hand written books till 15th century. As books are expensive so does literacy. To learn to read and write, need to refer to books. When this printing machine came to availability, books became cheap and affordable. Then on wards the barrier of high cost had gone. Source of knowledge are hand written papers or books besides people. Information is not so much available. Again because of expensive things. When printing is available news papers came into picture and from then on people had one more source of knowledge which is cheaper. In this way printing technology impact literacy and education..