Brother João de Bustamante or Juan de Bustamante (born 1536 – August 23, 1588), also known as 'the Indian Gutenberg',[citation needed] was a Spanish missionary who inaugurated the first era of print in India, specifically in the Portuguese colony of Goa.
He joined the Society of Jesus in 1556 and was ordained in 1564, having been rechristened João Rodrigues the previous year.
He was an expert printer who accompanied the printing press that reached India en route from Portugal to Ethiopia (then Abyssinia) with a batch of Jesuit missionaries.
He was aided by his unnamed assistant of Indian origin and thus, printing began in India.
Bustamante was among the two most important Europeans to play a role in the history of printing in India, along with his colleague João Gonçalves, another Spaniard by birth, who is credited with casting and preparing the first printing types of an Indian script – Tamil – in Goa in 1577, with the assistance of the convert Pero Luis, which were later used by Henrique Henriques for Thambiran Vanakkam.