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Figure 6

Figure 6
This outstanding surviving example of an early press shows the carriage open, exposing the type laid out on the forme* below. Hanging from the side of the press is the soft sponge used to ink the type. Beams anchor the press to the ceiling of the workshop

* = a body of type secured in a chase for printing.
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 Dinesh
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During the time of Guterberg, the technology for both printing and superior papermaking spread through Europe. Some scholars maintain that the boom of paper production came as an indirect result of the bubonic plague, which killed a third of the European population. The old clothing left behind by the millions of plague victims became a cheap raw material for papermakers and thus encouraged new uses for the paper. Regardless of the importance of the plague in stimulating the paper business, the invention of moveable type of printing certainly created a new and greatly expanded market for printed materials and made possible the expanded use of paper money. ~ page 129

The History of Money
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 Dinesh
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Writing eventually brings uniformity to language and the invention and spread of printing brought great power to writing. It was invented by Guttenberg in Mainz around 1453. England was slow into print -- Caxton’s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Caxton press only went into service in 1476. Printing marked the beginning of the information age. Because it became so easy to manufacture books in large numbers it became more difficult to control the spread of ideas. The flatbed press was a liberator.

William Caxton was born in Kent somewhere around 1420. He was experienced to a textile dealer and went to Bruges in the 1440s, where he did well. In 1462 he was appointed governor of the English Trading Company there, the Merchant Adventurers. Caxton was a man of learning as well as being merchant and in 1469 he began work on a translation of a French account of the Trojan War. It was while working in Cologne that he learned about printing and once back in Bruges he set up a press to print his seven-hundred-page translation: “The Recuyell [French - “compilation”] ‘of the Historyes of Troye,’ the first book printed in English. In 1476 he set up his press near Westminster Palace and before his death he had published ninety six items, some in several editions. ` Page 97

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