"Bruno Fabbiani has devised 30 experiments that show Gutenberg did not use moveable type to print the bible," Francesco Pirella of Genoa's Museum of Print said
Picture of the overlap that Bruno found when studying Gutenberg's Bible. From the Discovery Channel.
China is where the discovery of the first movable type. Hua Sui is credited with being the creator of movable type in the East.
Picture from Cultural China.com
Why the pre discovered movable type did not catch on to the same extent as Gutenberg's.
"In the Far East, movable type and printing presses were known but did not replace printing from individually carved wooden blocks, from movable clay type, processes much more efficient than hand copying. The use of movable type in printing was invented in 1041 AD by Bi Sheng in China. Since there are thousands of Chinese characters, the benefit of the technique is not as obvious as in European languages." - The great Idea finder - The history of the printing press.
