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Originally Posted by aliasyzy
I think who invented moveable type earlier is no big deal. It's natural to consider moveable type when people want to be more effcient.
The moveable type has been invented and developed in China since 10th century, but the whole block method was still widely used for a very long period. I don't know why, but this means the movable type method that time had soft spots in some aspects. So, I think Gutenberg's invention is more important, for the idea of movable type was put in practice perfectly since then.
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As I understand it, individual letters and words were used to print for a while. What Gutenberg did was make type that was all the same
height, to produce a printed uniform page, repeatedly.
