Why Was Western Printing Superior to Asian Printing?

Movable type was not invented by Gutenberg but in China and later advanced in Korea, so why didn’t Asia have a printing revolution?

Erik Engheim
9 min readSep 7, 2022

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Traditional Chinese Printmaking Panel
Traditional Chinese Printmaking Panel

We like to think of Johannes Gutenberg as inventor of the printing press and movable type in 1450. Yet, the first movable type got invented in China around…

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Erik Engheim

Geek dad, living in Oslo, Norway with passion for UX, Julia programming, science, teaching, reading and writing.