id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1732 Movable type - Wikipedia .html text/html 6849 700 73 The development of the printing press in Europe may have been influenced by various sporadic reports of movable type technology brought back to Europe by returning business people and missionaries to China.[2][3][4] Some of these medieval European accounts are still preserved in the library archives of the Vatican and Oxford University among many others.[5] Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg introduced the metal movable-type printing press in Europe, along with innovations in casting the type based on a matrix and hand mould. The high quality and relatively low price of the Gutenberg Bible (1455) established the superiority of movable type in Europe and the use of printing presses spread rapidly. Main articles: History of Western typography and Spread of European movable type printing ^ a b Pan Jixing, A history of movable metal type printing technique in China 2001 ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1732.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1732.txt