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Ibna batuta transferred the knowledge of printing to Europe.

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The given statement is false.
Marco Polo moved the ability of printing to Europe. China already possessed woodblock printing technology. All of this information was carried back by Marco Polo. With the introduction of woodblock printing, Italy became the first nation in Europe to publish books. Luxury editions, still handwritten on extremely expensive vellum and intended for aristocratic circles and wealthy monastery libraries that mocked printed books as being low-class vulgarities, were still available. In the university towns, retailers and students purchased the less expensive printed versions. There was a huge need for even faster and less costly text reproduction. Only the development of brand-new print technology would make this possible. The innovation took place in Strasbourg, Germany, where Johann Gutenberg created the first printing press known to exist in the 1430s.

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