Wooden Letterpress

Timeline

1. c. 1543–1545Nuremberg · German landsWorkshops in German and Italian cities commonly combined hardwood type pegs, type cases, and screw presses, forming standardized wooden-type printing workflows capable of producing hundreds of pamphlets a day at lower cost than all-metal type sets.
2. c. 1546–1550Low Countries · Low CountriesCheap reading matter printed jointly with wooden type and woodcut blocks spread rapidly in the Reformation context; illustrated almanacs, pamphlets, and vernacular texts became important vehicles of information flow between northern and southern Europe.