<Dd> `` Presses '' only seem to have been used in Asia in relatively recent times . Simple weighted presses may have been used in Europe , but firm evidence is lacking . Later , printing - presses were used ( from about 1480 ) . A deceased Abbess of Mechelen in Flanders in 1465 had `` unum instrumentum ad imprintendum scripturas et ymagines ... cum 14 aliis lapideis printis '' ( `` an instrument for printing texts and pictures ... with 14 stones for printing '' ) which is probably too early to be a Gutenberg - type printing press in that location . </Dd>
<Dd> `` Presses '' only seem to have been used in Asia in relatively recent times . Simple weighted presses may have been used in Europe , but firm evidence is lacking . Later , printing - presses were used ( from about 1480 ) . A deceased Abbess of Mechelen in Flanders in 1465 had `` unum instrumentum ad imprintendum scripturas et ymagines ... cum 14 aliis lapideis printis '' ( `` an instrument for printing texts and pictures ... with 14 stones for printing '' ) which is probably too early to be a Gutenberg - type printing press in that location . </Dd>
when was the wooden block printing press invented
when was the wooden block printing press invented
about 1480
about 1480