The main goal of this paper is to present development of the most important printing offices in the 18th and 19th century in Slavonia, which lasted despite numerous violently political and social circumstances. Osijek is the town specially highlighted because it had an important role in development of all printing and book trade activites in the entire Slavonia. Printing in Osijek, and in Slavonia in general, started with the opening of the Franciscan printing house in the 1735. During the 18thcentury the printing production of the whole Slavonia was marked by work of one printing office, the one that was source of stationery supplies for all citizens, until the 19th century when the industrialization provided more printing offices in Slavonia. Typography in other parts of Slavonia is shown through the three Slavonian counties: Požega County, Virovitica County, Srijem County and Vojna Kraina County. The starting point of this paper shows and clarifies what happened in Europe and then in Croatia from the invention of the printing press till the 19th century. This paper also contains the most important facts about the Gutenberg Revolution and the changes brought to society afterwards. Significance of the printing press is in its information component which enabled quicker dissemination of thoughts and ideas. Constant upgrades of the printing press through the following centuries have made reading available to everyone, and not only to privileged individuals of the closed society.