are we finished yet If we were doing this the proper way First stepwill take a few days as it isnt on lineis to read the article mentioned and see what it actually says because to some of us it seems a very strange assertion Second stepwill take a good deal longer to see if anyone has specifically contradicted him    or criticized him And could someone say exactly how both the impressed letters and the stylus touchups could have been reproduced in the relevant period  This is really OR Im going to at least read the article since Im curious  Can someone please tell me what a printing press would be if it were not a machine  The general article is printing  the printing press article talks about printing presses  block printing talks about  block printing  movable type has to go somewhere it was voted not to have an art of its own before I got here so it goes here unless someone has a better place that doesnt contradict the RfD  And the phaistos disc article talks about the disc As evertype says there are lots of interesting but unlikely theories about it there  Would someone please like to write something more where we need it instead of this Start here we need material on the th th and th centuryit doesnt take deep scholarship  just enough to summarize There are plenty of easily available sources   This isnt the page to argue about east asian printing presses GPM I know it isnt required but some of us have posted some information about ourselves on our user pages