http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041108/bible.html
Italian researcher Bruno Fabbiani believes that Gutenberg used stamps with a metallographic invention rather than movable type for his 42 page bible that he is said to have invented between 1452 and 1455.
After studying one page from the bible closely Fabbiani noticed that some of the letters were superimposed.
Fabbiani said - "Movable type are metal blocks, sort of parallelepipeds put together, one attached to another, to form words. With this method, it is practically impossible for type to be superimposed,"
Instead he believed it would be a typewritter type process on a larger scale which could have possibly slipped slightly causing the slight imperfection.
His claim caused uproar in the industry, some experts were quick to dismiss his claims.
"Eva Hanebutt-Benz, director of the Gutenberg Museum in the German town of Mainz, where Gutenberg was born, told reporters that there are "many open questions" on how Gutenberg produced the Bible as no documents exist from the printer's workshop. But she was strongly skeptical about Fabbiani's claim."
other experts were more open minded and intrigued about Fabbiani's believes.
"This is very important and credible research. We should not be afraid to destroy the myths, " Francesco Pirella of Genoa's Museum of Print told Discovery News.
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