![]() Gutenberg's printer used Gothic script letters. Gutenberg began his printing experiments sometime in the 1440s CE, and he was able to establish his printing firm in Mainz in 1450 CE. There was already a well-established demand for books from the clergy & the many new universities & grammar schools. ![]() In any case, like most technologies in history, the invention likely sprang from a cumulation of elements, ideas, and necessity involving multiple individuals across time and space. Whether the idea of moveable type presses spread via merchants and travellers from Asia to Europe or if the invention by Gutenberg was spontaneous is still a point of debate amongst scholars. Chinese Buddhist scholars also printed religious works using moveable type presses the earliest ones used woodblocks during the Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE). There is, too, evidence that movable metal type printers had already been invented in Korea in 1234 CE in the Goryeo Kingdom (918-1392 CE). 1400-1465 CE) and his son-in- law Peter Schöffer (c. 1370-1440 CE) and two other early German printers, Johann Fust (c. However, there are other claims, notably the Dutch printer Laurens Janszoon Coster (c. The invention of the movable metal type printer in Europe is usually credited to the German printer Johannes Gutenberg. ![]()
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