@Alanoud said in Bookworm Part 3 Vol. 3 Discussion!:
Since the printing press is mostly made of wood with a few metal parts, this is the closest I found online to how I imagined Rozemyne's printing press will operate and look like.
And that's basically a combination of the two. That has the Gutenberg-style screw press, but the later addition of a control wheel on the slide to wind the plate in/out of position. Myne specifically mentions that advancement (with the line "The printing press that I know has a handle on the side that you can turn to slide it in and out."). However, with all the talk of leverage and springs, it's likely that something closer to the Washington press was what she was envisioning, since it specifically focuses on compound levers to achieve lots of force in the press with minimal human effort. The interesting thing is that, while Washington presses were easier to use and more reliable (in part because their mostly metal parts fitted together with higher precision), most of the early models lacked that control wheel even though it was developed far earlier than the lever-actuated part of the press. So what she's actually imagining seems to be the combination of both improvements.
