Eventually, instead of printing from these directly, he employed them to stamp out intermediate dies which were then used as moulds to mass produce letter blocks made of a lead alloy.

During the Middle Ages before the invention of printing presses, every letter of a word had to be painstakingly transcribed by hand for each copy of a published book.

So I don't postpone hanging up my coat, printing out a document and filing it, glancing over a letter and throwing it away.