Johann Comes Alive

Enter Johann Gutenberg and movable type circa 1500 was responsible creating the printing press that used separate letter shapes to form the individual blocks of words that could be inked. This was a derivation of the Chinese printing methods over a half a millennium before. Gutenberg used this method to use singular letter shapes arranged together for printing pages of type. This allowed far more printing and less work to generate more pages at a lessen cost for the time.