Chapter 218

Ingo decided to take in metal to improve the printing press, so I ask Benno to bring Johann and Zack together next time.

“… Is it really good, Ingo?”

“I don’t know what kind of metal to use for me who only handle wood. It’s best to ask a guy who specializes in it.”

It seemed natural for me to call Johann and Zach, but it was impossible, Benno said.

Originally, it seems that the blacksmith workshop is not involved from the design stage to the items requested by the wood workshop. Since it is the woodworking workshop that receives the request, it seems to take the form of being designed in the woodworking workshop and then asking the blacksmithing workshop for the necessary parts.

Ingo said that if I was satisfied with the client, I decided to do something unprecedented in designing after discussions with other industries.

“… Isn’t it normal to exchange opinions between different industries?”

“I have ordered hinges and nails from the blacksmith workshop when making furniture and doors, but I don’t talk to other workshops in the design stage, let alone other industries.”

Ingo said, to clarify who received the request and where it would benefit. Probably, I think that the system for deciding to be assigned is made for similar reasons.

“Do you know the craftsman of the aristocratic temple head …”

Why can’t I understand beyond the sighing ingo that it can’t be helped? There is Benno who is fond of me.

…… I don’t know if I’m not a genuine aristocrat. sorry.

My father is a soldier, and my mother and Turi are only employed in the workshop, so I am not familiar with the circumstances of the craftsmen who carry the workshop. Perhaps it is because I was crazy about creating books and was not interested in the mechanism of the world at all.

“Now I’m thinking about various improvements as much as possible.”

“Oh, I asked”

After Ingo returns, I will write down the improvements while remembering about the printer as much as possible. I can’t design, so I just need words and diagrams, but I think it should be a trigger for something.

A few days later, Johann and Zack, who were called up, came looking around. Johan is purely anxious about what he can do next time, and Zack has a curious face like “ Isn’t there anything interesting in the director’s office? ” Looking around the room.

“… That’s why I wanted to use metal to improve the printing press and called them together. Please cooperate.”

When explaining the circumstances and asking for cooperation, Zach engraved his nose head unsatisfactory, unlike Johan, who immediately responded “I understand”.

“Even though it is said to be a cooperation, the printing press is a request to the woodworking workshop. It is not a request to our studio, so there should be no profit here.”

“I’m going to pay money, of course?”

Zac shook his head, not when I tilted his head.

“It’s not just about money. It’s said that helping the rest of the job doesn’t improve the blacksmith’s reputation.”

Helping other people with work does not lead to evaluation. So, Johan is poorly evaluated even if he has only technology. This is because there are not many customers who come to the request, and they only help others. Helping Johan, who is good at fine work, raises the reputation of the craftsman who received the request, and the reputation of the workshop. But that doesn’t improve Johann’s personal appreciation.

“If I ordered a metal part from the blacksmith workshop, wouldn’t it lead to the evaluation of Johann or Zach? I asked, but?”

Ordering printing presses from Ingo’s workshop, ordering metal parts from Zac and Johann’s workshops.

Then I thought it would not be much different from a normal request, but is I wrong?

“… Johan is overwhelmingly fine for fine work”

Zack asked, taking an example of a roller for making a raw paper in the corner of the workshop. The machine designed by Zach and made by Johan was easier to use than the machine made by Zach.

I know that Zack bites his back teeth in a regrettable manner that he designed, but he couldn’t make it. It was an irritation born by understanding Johan’s technical capabilities.

“Parts work is decided to go to Johann. It doesn’t lead to my evaluation”

No matter how much you think, Zach asks that the results will be taken by Johann.

In the past, Johann showed his design to Johann, saying that he couldn’t do it, but he found that Zach was very wary of Johann’s technology.

It is difficult for each other to watch out for each other and not to exchange ideas and ideas freely. I’m looking forward to Zack’s imaginative power that will shape ambiguous explanations and hopes.

“I’m really looking forward to Zac’s imagination. Can we get a blacksmith’s reputation in the form of purchasing a blueprint?”

Johan is more sure to make the parts, but the idea and design is overwhelmingly better for Zack. When I wanted to buy Zack’s idea, Zach rounded his eyes as if he was told something unexpected.

“Did you buy a blueprint? Isn’t it an article?”

Listening to Zack, who was so surprised and plainly used, I again felt a culture shock. The act of buying a blueprint seems unusual here.

“Yeah, the blueprint is what Zach thought about? Isn’t the blueprint worth enough because I want to make it? I want to buy a Zack blueprint. If you think that the product is a blueprint, will it lead to Zac’s evaluation? ”

“Oh, uh, does that mean I ordered a blueprint and told you to buy it? … Rose Mine doesn’t say something that surprises me sometimes”

Zack said, blinking his eyes. I didn’t know why I was surprised, and Johan sighed lightly while watching me leaning.

“It’s not always when Rosemine says something that surprises me. It’s always”

I just sharpened my lips to Johann, who told me that today was just as good as not praying suddenly.

It seems that the blueprints were not sold because the blueprints were made through discussions with customers, and they became goods. If you want the same product as the one you made before, you will get a new customer with the customer’s introduction, so it seems that you won’t have to circulate the blueprint.

“I never thought of selling blueprints, but if asked and if the blueprint is a product, don’t lead to my evaluation”

By submitting a design document request to Zach through Benno, Zack was convinced and cooperated in the design of the printing press.

“So how does Rosemine want to improve?”

“Current presses are all made of wood, but we want to make some of them metal to improve strength and printing accuracy.”

I took out the written illustration and spread it out as long as I remember.

“First of all, I want the printing machine to move like this. I want to put the typesetting, and then fix the paper here by folding this plate and then moving it under the compression plate.” But … “

Referring to the figure, I explained how it moves with gestures. Zach listens to him as he slams, and Johan has a difficult face.

“At the very least, I want to attach metal and make it slippery”

“Ah, then …”

Johan said, “I can do it” as if he was relieved, but Zack gave off his gray eyes in a challenging manner.

“… minimum? Best?”

“I hope this table can be moved by turning the handle, do you understand?”

Zack squints into the pantomime that moves around with the handle.

“Move the base with the handle …”

“There was also a way to move the table by applying the spooling method. Is this helpful?”

“Fun, spools … I see”

I see, so I wonder if something came up. As expected, the idea is Zac. Suitable for the title of Gutenberg.

Waiting for Zack’s thoughts to come together, Ingo crossed his arms and looked at me with blue eyes.

“Shrine head, what else is there?”

“Others?”

“Yes. Leave it as feasible and tell me what improvements I want you to make and what you want me to make”

Ingo simply says “as long as I can come up with it”, but I don’t think I can understand it.

“As long as I can think of it, can I say it? Maybe it won’t happen”

“I can, I can’t. I can do it with a bit of a word like the current Zack. There may be something else that can be used.

Zack screams in Ingo’s words and looks at me with the eyes of expectations. Regardless of whether you can expect it or not, let’s shake it steadily.

“I understand. Then I want you to consider using” Spring “”

“Spring?”

“Isn’t it handled in the blacksmith workshop because it’s made of metal? Although it’s like this,”

When I drew a diagram and described how to use it, Johann slammed his hands

“Oh, spring? … where do you use it on the press?”

“I don’t know”

“Yes !?”

No, I don’t know what I don’t know when I see it with my eyes. I’ve read the history of printer improvements, but I didn’t have detailed blueprints, and I don’t remember them in detail.

“I only know that it is used to help the vertical movement of the pressure plate to apply pressure. How can it be incorporated into a printing press to be made in the future? It’s up to you, the craftsman, that it will come in handy if you use it well, but it’s not something you must use. “

Even though it has been improved, it only describes what I remember, so there should be a lot of smaller improvements and a lot of ideas I don’t know.

If I can make a new printing press that incorporates what I said, the history of the printing press will move about 100 to 200 years at a stretch. I don’t think it should be.

“Ah, but because it will be improved anyway, one more thing”

“Is there still an improvement?”

Zack cried and cried.

Why did you make such a surprised face even though it was Zack or Ingo that I said to say as long as I came up with it?

“I think that this will change the printing machine from the ground up, so I can’t do it right away. It’s made using a press, so it’s a screw type. I hope we can make a printing machine that uses “Principle” “

“Ah, Tekonogenri …”

The Ingo, who had heard the explanation last time, recalled that he could not understand, and his eyes broke out, and Johann and Zach became confident.

As explained to Ingo, explaining the principle of lever, and explaining that this principle is also used in the field of construction and masonry, giving concrete examples, everyone, I was convinced.

“I know the principle, but I don’t know how to use it”

ザ Zach shakes his head, denying Johann ’s words, giving up his shoulders, and shines his eyes.

“What are you talking about? This is great. You can move big things with a small amount of power. What is the most powerful force you use on a printing press? If this can be done with a small amount of force, will it be possible to print easily, and isn’t the usage more than just printing? ”

“After all, the idea of ​​Zach is amazing. As Zak said, the principle and spring can be applied to other things. Personally, I want you to use a spring to make a bed, but first of all, It ’s a printing press, wherever you put it, it ’s the first press. ”

Books are more important than comfortable mattresses. I don’t know how to use springs and lever principles to create new things if they can do it.

“For now, let’s draw various blueprints …. You can buy it, right?”

“I’ve made a request to Zak’s workshop for the design of the printing press, and I will buy what I thought was good.”

Zack became a face thinking about this. There seems to be a lot of ideas in my head.

While watching such Zac, Ingo breathes slowly.

“Huh, it’s so young but amazing. I didn’t know what the temple chief was saying”

“The work of Johann and Ingo is to choose what is feasible among the presses that Zach has been thinking about, and it is the work of Johann and Ingo. It ’s good. ”

¡Johan shook his head as he exhaled slowly to me as he was in the right place.

“I don’t need to rush to improve the printing press because I’m only making a picture book now.”

“If you don’t make a printing press while you’re making a picture book, you’ll have trouble later?” What are you talking about, Johann? “I don’t have enough awareness as Gutenberg.” [19459002 ]

Johann is looking at this with a grim face saying “I have no awareness”, but it is ignored. Johann Gutenberg. I won’t yield this.

“While Zack is designing, Ingo and Johan have another request”

I gave them a blueprint.

We decided to submit a request for type cases, typesetting tables, and walking sticks and Intel to Ingo.

“Type case and typeset? … What are these walking sticks and Intel?”

“The type case is a box for putting metal type, considering the size and position of the frame depending on the frequency and number of use. And the typesetting table is a table in which the type case is placed. It ’s a stand. ”

Included a type case here and explained that he would put the manuscript here and put it together like this.

“What are these sticks and Intel? Isn’t that much smaller than the case or stand?”

“A walking stick is like a long and narrow wooden box used for typesetting. You made it before?”

“I made it as it is, but I don’t know what to use”

The stick is not a box because it has a U-shaped side or an L-shaped side and is open somewhere. The length is about 5 to 6 cm that can be held with one hand.

In the typesetting stand, the letters are arranged one by one on this stick.

“What would you use this Intel if you put the type on the stick?”

“Inter is the first long board to put in a walking stick. It’s an excellent thing to determine the width of a line with just one sheet and align the line.”

The height is slightly lower than the metal type so as not to affect printing, the horizontal length is used to determine the length of one line of the text, and the vertical length is used to determine the line spacing.

After completing the line type, the next line is interleaved with Intel, so many pieces of the same Intel are required.

“If you are an Ingo workshop that prepares the same size board for winter handicrafts, can you make it easily?”

“It’s surprisingly difficult to arrange the size for a monotonous thing. It’s just right for apprenticeship training”

Ingo took over while saying so.

Johan looks at the blueprint and narrows his amber eyes with a difficult face. Johan asked for a lot of contents and setten, but was there anything that was so difficult?

“What happened to Johann? What did you not understand?”

“What is a setten? It’s very thin”

“Oh, setten puts Intel in a stick and then puts it in line with Intel. It is designed to make metal type easier to slip.”

Since it is used for sliding, it must be a thin, straight metal plate. I look forward to Johan’s skill.

“And I’ve already made a lot of this space …”

“We had the space created, but quatta and joss are still there? And if you want to make a book with just letters, you’ll need malt, formate, and furniture”

Space is sandwiched between words. The space was already made by Johann.

QUATA is used at the end of a sentence that requires two or more spaces, so many different lengths are required. Currently, the space is used to fill the end of the sentence, but to make a long space, the work efficiency increases if there is a quatter.

Jos is used to create many lines of space. When there is a blank space for an illustration or when a blank space is required for a page break, it is greatly increased. To make it lighter, the inside is designed as a cavity.

Malto, Formart, and Furniture are used to create page margins when printing two pages at a time with facing pages. It is necessary to make a space between pages and to create a heaven and earth margin.

“Now I have only printed one page of text in a picture book, so I didn’t need it, but when I finished making a picture book, I used it. I thought I would start printing for adults packed with sentences. I need a number, so I’d like to prepare early. “

Johann took care of the blueprint, whispering that Rosemine was ready.

“There are plenty of due dates, but the creation of the printing press will also come in the middle, so please start early.”

Ten days later, Benno asked me to visit. It seems that Zach’s blueprint has been completed.

Zac, holding seven blueprints, enters the hidden room with a thrilled smile.

Looking closely, some of them were quite close to the printer I envisioned.

“This! Can you make this? It’s closest to what I know! Wow, Zack! No way, there’s just a blueprint for similar things so far I can do it.

Zack laughs at my praise and looks at the blueprints, explaining what he devised and why he wanted to do so.

Johann, who was fond of blueprints like me, took another blueprint and shined his face.

“Wait a minute, Rosemine. This one uses this principle and is great.”

“… You just want to challenge a little difficult thing? You only see small parts!”

Zach pointed out that Johann had a bad face for a moment, but immediately lit his blue eyes while pointing at the blueprint.

“If you leave it to me, I will definitely do it. Would you like to make this?”

“Oh, calm down, wait a minute”

The Ingo who was watching us spread his hand and stopped us. When you look at the Ingo while blinking your eyes, the Ingo looks around with all of the temples scratching the temple.

“First, Zack. I didn’t think I could have so many, yet ingenious designs. You did well.”

“No, no, it’s a job … because it’s my specialty”

Zac laughs as if he was praised from the front and slightly shy. Ingo laughed at it, and then looked at me.

“Next, the temple head. I said this was good because it was the closest to what I knew, but I would like you to consider it carefully, including the advantages and disadvantages of other things. Please calm down “

“… Yes”

I reach out to other design documents while smiring Benno and Lutz who are laughing while watching how they are beaten.

“And then Johan. It’s important as a craftsman to want to challenge difficult things, but it’s most important whether it’s really easy to use or something that the customer can be satisfied with. It ’s not good. ”

“… I’m sorry”

In the words of Ingo, everyone decided to review the blueprints again.

Talking about how this part could not be incorporated or how to do this, Zac repainted the design drawing several times, and the design drawing of a fairly advanced printing press was completed.

I think that the history of printing has progressed for about two hundred years.

“It’s a big job in winter”

All the craftsmen who were entrusted with the job of making printing presses were challenging and full of motivation. They encourage each other to complete it by the next spring.

…… May my Gutenberg have the blessing of the goddess of wisdom, Mestionola.