From discovery.com: Gutenberg Printing Method Questioned.
Posted on November 16, 2004 07:33 AM. Filed under: history & archaeology.Johannes Gutenberg may be wrongly credited with producing the first Western book printed in movable type, according to an Italian researcher.
Presenting his findings in a mock trial of Gutenberg at the recent Festival of Science in Genoa, Bruno Fabbiani, an expert in printing who teaches at Turin Polytechnic, said the 15th-century German printer used stamps rather than the movable type he is said to have invented between 1452 and 1455. (...)
According to Fabbiani, Gutenberg printed his bible not with movable type, but with a brilliant metallographic invention. [continue]