A few machines have truly changed the world, such as the wheel, steam engines, or the printing press ... brayer laden with ink over the type blocks and hand press a piece of paper with the ...

Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor decided to make the most of his new technology — the movable-type printing press — by producing an unprecedented version of the ...

Unlike block printing, Gutenberg’s press featured a movable “key ... of a press that mechanised the transfer of ink from movable type to paper”, allowing rapid and cheap mass production ...

The New Gutenberg Annex (NGA) is a project of Writers House ... From a single table-top press and a handful of movable type, the Annex has grown to offer the following to individuals and classes: ...

The issue being that metal movable type moved! That is, the individual fonts were not held in a tight frame as was Gutenberg’s and after only four printing runs, they tell me, the font would ...