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Gutenberg took most of his inspiration from Chinese wooden block techniques.

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Gutenberg took most of his inspiration from Chinese wooden block techniques. Like Bi Sheng, Wang Chen, and Baegun before him, he realised that in order to speed up the printing process, it would be necessary to separate the traditional wooden blocks into their various parts, such as lower-and upper-case letters, punctuation, etc. He made these moveable blocks of letters and symbols out of lead, antimony, and tin, among other metals. He also developed his own ink using linseed oil and soot, which was a significant advancement over the water-based inks used in China at the time. Compared to manually pressing paper to ink, the first printing press enabled a manufacturing method akin to an assembly line.

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