Scinzenzeler began his career under the apprenticeship of his father, Ulrich Scinzenzeler. Giovanni has been described as "the most prolific of the Milanese printers in the early 1500s".[2]
He often printed on commission for the Milanese publishing house Ioannes Iacobus de Legnano et fratres. They used a printer's mark comprising an angel holding a disc bearing the inscription "IO IACOMO E FRAT. DE LEGNANO" around a blazing sun, in the middle of which are the letters I.H.S., under a cross.[3]
Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler printed four editions of The Imitation of Christ, in 1500, 1504, 1511 and 1519 (his father Giovanni had published one in 1489).[2]
