The Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos of Buenos Aires (1780)

The first printing press of Buenos Aires was not owned by a printer, a university or the crown's treasury: it was assigned to the city's foundling home, which took its profits. The types were the disused Jesuit press of Córdoba, transferred under the rule that expelled Jesuit property must go to schooling and charity, and for thirty years every book, bando and newspaper printed in the Río de la Plata carried the foundlings' name in its imprint.