Question: Who invented movable type and the machine to reproduce text?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: Who invented the world's first movable type and machine to reproduce text?
Who is often said to have invented movable type and the machine to reproduce text, even though it was introduced earlier in Asia?
answer: Bi Sheng
Johannes Gutenberg
Natural Questions answer: Bi Sheng (from the Wikipedia article "Movable type")