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Another way to phrase the question: how many copies on a Gutenberg before you're even in time with typesetting? Random online estimates suggest 4 hours to type
by ekelsen 1mo ago
Another way to phrase the question: how many copies on a Gutenberg before you're even in time with typesetting?
Random online estimates suggest 4 hours to typeset a page and 200 pages an hour. So 800 copies.
I think this makes my point that on a Gutenberg press printing the already typeset page still wasn't that fast.
- WalterBright 1mo ago300:1, as I wrote earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253673 And inevitably, efforts were made to improve the efficiency of the printer.
- ekelsen 1mo agoI don't see how the reduction in price from a manuscript to a gutenberg pressed book is the same as the figure I was calculating? Anyway, feels like this is no longer a productive discussion.