When was the movable type printing technique invented?
Bi Sheng (毕昇/畢昇) (990–1051) developed the first known movable-type system for printing in China around 1040 AD during the Northern Song dynasty, using ceramic materials. As described by the Chinese scholar Shen Kuo (沈括) (1031–1095):
When was ceramic movable type developed?
1040 AD
Movable type
In 1193, Zhou Bida, an officer of Southern Song Dynasty, made a set of clay movable-type method according to the method described by Shen Kuo in his "Dream Pool Essays", and printed his book "Notes of The Jade Hall" (《玉堂雜記》).
When was a clay movable type system developed?
1193
Movable type
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When was metal movable type developed?
12th century
Modern, factory-produced movable type was available in the late 19th century. It was held in the printing shop in a "job case", a drawer about 2 inches high, a yard wide, and about two feet deep, with many small compartments for the various letters and ligatures. The most popular and accepted of the job case designs in America was the California Job Case, which took its name from the Pacific coast location of the foundries that made the case popular.
When did modern, factory produced movable type become available?
late 19th century
Movable type
Movable type
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable%20type
Movable type (US English; moveable type in British English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric characters or punctuation marks) usually on the medium of paper.

The world's first movable type printing technology for paper books was made of porcelain materials and was invented around AD 1040 in China during the Northern Song Dynasty by the inventor Bi Sheng (990–1051).[1] The earliest printed paper money with movable metal type to print the identifying code of the money was made in 1161 during the Song Dynasty.[2]
Movable type
Modern, factory-produced movable type was available in the late 19th century. It was held in the printing shop in a job case, a drawer about 2 inches high, a yard wide, and about two feet deep, with many small compartments for the various letters and ligatures. 
Movable type
At least 13 material finds in China indicate the invention of bronze movable type printing in China no later than the 12th century,[25] with the country producing large-scale bronze-plate-printed paper money and formal official documents issued by the Jin (1115–1234) and Southern Song (1127–1279) dynasties with embedded bronze metal types for anti-counterfeit markers.
Movable type
In 1193, Zhou Bida, an officer of Southern Song Dynasty, made a set of clay movable-type method according to the method described by Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays, and printed his book Notes of The Jade Hall (《玉堂雜記》).
Movable type
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.
Movable type
The world's first movable type printing technology, which is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document usually on the medium of paper, for books was made of porcelain materials and was invented around 1040 AD in China. In 1193, Zhou Bida, an officer of Southern Song Dynasty, made a set of clay movable-type method according to the method described by Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays, and printed his book Notes of The Jade Hall. In the 12th century, at least 13 material finds in China indicate the invention of bronze movable type printing in China, and around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg introduced the metal movable-type printing press in Europe. In the late 19th century, modern, factory-produced movable type was available and was held in the printing shop in a job case, a drawer about 2 inches high, a yard wide, and about two feet deep, with many small compartments for the various letters and ligatures.