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> conflating movable type with printing press is a big mistake for this type of analysis, Innovation on the movable types was a key part of Gutenbergs system a
by nosianu 4y ago
> conflating movable type with printing press is a big mistake for this type of analysis,
Innovation on the movable types was a key part of Gutenbergs system and creating the movable metal types was an inseparable part of the Gutenberg innovation. The article mentions a bit more than my short summary too.
I think the mistake actually is to separate them in your analysis of the analysis. To get a working product Gutenberg created an integrated package with both.
It specifically mentions the innovations in creating the movable metal types themselves under "Advantages of Gutenberg's Printing Technique". A much better metal alloy and a hand mold, allowing for much faster creation of new metal types than the Chinese alloy and technique.
- matkoniecz 4y agobut note that you can try printing without printing press. It is just order of magnitude (or two) worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press > European printing presses of around 1600 were capable of producing between 1,500[47] and 3,600 impressions per workday.[3] By comparison, Far Eastern printing, where the back of the paper was manually rubbed to the page,[48] did not exceed an output of forty pages per day.[4]