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The two oldest printing presses

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Re: The two oldest printing presses

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post #18

Maybe I'm too nitpicky, but I wish that, out of the 8 times that they write "the oldest printing presses", they would at least once mention that these are the oldest (known) surviving printing presses, just to avoid anyone getting a wrong impression. Actually, they're not even the oldest in Belgium by a long margin, according to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_spread_of_the_printing_... ), the first…

It’s also a very western view - block printing was a thing in China well before this. I don’t know, but I suspect there are older surviving presses there or in Asia more generally.

Re: The two oldest printing presses

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It took me the entire web page to understand that the display is in Antwerpen, Belgium. Maybe I am the one and only ignorant to not know it, but I am pretty sure I am not alone. Nowadays we give a lot of stuff for granted.

The address is on their home page, exactly where I at least expected it to be.

youtu.be is not a Belgian website!
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