System for casting type,(Steel punch, Brass Matrix, two type molds) Early-nineteenth-century.
Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, Jan Fust and Peter Schoeffer, 1459.
The Master of the Playing cards, The Three Birds, c. 1450.
Jack of Diamonds, woodblock playing card, c. 1400
-Typographic printing allowed economical and multiple production of alphebet communication
-After the Crusades opened Europe to Eastern influence, relief printing arrived on the heels of paper, Playing cards and religious-image points were early manifestations.
-Early prints evolved into block books, which were woodcut picture books with religious subject matterandbreif text.
-John Gensfleish zum Gutenburg of Mainz, Germany, first brought together the complex systems and subsystems necessary to print a typographic book around the year 1450
-Gutenburg developed a unique alloy to maintain a constant mass throughout the process of manufacturing type and used Linseed oil to produce thick and tacky ink
-Rationale Divinorum officiorum was the first typographic book that employed a small-sized type style to conserve space and increase the amount of text in each page.
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