[Sca-cooks] moveable type

[Terry Decker]

> According to a book that I read, Gutenberg's discovery was not
> movable type as such, so much as his method using masters from which the 
> type was cast.

Die cast type

Type wears out, and you need many copies of each
> letter.  His invention made printing practical, by letting him carve each 
> letter once, and cast copies as needed.
>
> Ranvaig

Standardized type face.  Which, BTW, originally was script to give the feel 
of reading a manuscript.

Bear

>
>
>>There is no evidence that Gutenberg's moveable type was anything other 
>>than an independent invention.  There is no way to really tell where he 
>>got his ideas, because very little is known of his life.
>>
>>No matter how he got the idea, it was the making standardized type of die 
>>cast metal that made the idea great.  When I first learned to set type in 
>>my uncle's shop some 500 years after Gutenberg, we were using the same 
>>kind of lead type with one exception, a groove along the bottom side so 
>>you could tell at a glance if you were setting the type properly.
>>
>>Bear
>>
>>>Is there any indication in your reading of how Gutenberg learned of 
>>>moveable type?
>>>
>>>Cordelia Tose
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