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The 25 pages that link to Movable type, each with the reason it gives.

• Printing pressRelated: Movable type let printers change a page’s text without carving a new printing surface.

• Song dynastyRelated: Bi Sheng’s eleventh-century invention emerged during the Song, though woodblock printing remained more widespread.

• PaperRelated: Its expansion in East Asia and Europe depended on a plentiful, economical printing surface.

• TypographyRelated: Its modular characters made repeated text reproduction practical and shaped print typography.

• History of booksBroader topic: Reusable type made it possible to reproduce and revise texts in multiple copies.

• Gutenberg BibleNarrower topic: Individual metal sorts could be rearranged to print successive pages.

• Johannes GutenbergNarrower topic: Gutenberg’s press depended on arranging and reusing cast metal letters.

• William CaxtonRelated: Caxton’s press printed pages by arranging and reusing metal type.

• Northern Song dynastyRelated: Printing innovations helped circulate texts in the Northern Song’s expanding literate culture.

• Relief printingRelated: Raised type can be inked and printed by the relief method.

• TypesettingNarrower topic: Typesetting's physical form developed around arranging movable characters in a printing frame.

• Print cultureBroader topic: Its rearrangement made composing and reprinting pages more flexible.

• Music printingRelated: Reusable musical sorts made repeated notes and symbols easier to set than whole-page carvings.

• Chinese woodblock printingCompared with: Unlike a carved page block, movable type separates reusable characters from the page layout.

• History of writingRelated: Reusable type made texts reproducible while allowing pages to be reset.

• Printing revolutionBroader topic: Rearranging reusable letters made new pages without carving each page anew.

• Bi ShengNarrower topic: Bi Sheng’s innovation was an early system for arranging and reusing individual characters.

• MainzRelated: Gutenberg’s Mainz system made printed pages reproducible and composable.

• History of communicationRelated: Movable type preceded and helped enable large-scale printing in East Asia and Europe.

• IncunableRelated: Its reusable pieces let printers reset pages instead of carving each page as a whole.

• History of PrintingRelated: Reusable type changed the economics and speed of reproducing books.

• Book (publication)Related: Movable type made it possible to reproduce book text in multiple copies.

• History of graphic designRelated: Reusable type made repeated, consistent textual layouts practical.

• Johann CarolusRelated: Reusable type enabled printers like Carolus to reproduce long texts efficiently across successive issues.

• William CaslonNarrower topic: His designs were made as movable metal sorts for printers.