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So if you're saying hand-carved woodblock printing should be considered a "press", sure the Chinese had a "press." If you're going to tell me that the printing

So if you're saying hand-carved woodblock printing should be considered a "press", sure the Chinese had a "press." If you're going to tell me that the printing press could not have been the important factor because a hand-carved woodblock typeset is just as economical as an actual press with metal movable type, I'm willing to debate you on that.

garmaine 7y ago
They had mechanical printing presses used for wood-blick illustrations. They also had movable type printing presses for long text. For some reason they didn’t combine the two until much later. Probably market forces though—Europe was rather unique in having demand for everyone to own a Bible during the reformation. Without needing thousands of copies, hand presses were easier.