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Chapter 424 Newspapers

Because of the newspaper.

Some people have received the latest news from their hometown to dispel their longing, some have praised the successive inventions of Baizhu, the newspaper, and some are interested in the latest discoveries in the magic world. After all, more people actually do not have the ability to read papers, and they also hope to have some understanding of the magic world, so there is actually a demand for popular science of magic knowledge.

Some people are very interested in the novels serialized above, but because they are just the first chapter, they did not cause much response.

As thousands of newly printed newspapers were sold out the next day, the markets of the Academy and Beishui City were slightly filled, but the huge demand was still coming, making Yanel feel pain and happy.

Jiayi was also pulled over. He didn't need to print newspapers, but Yanel fell in love with his movable type printing machine and wanted Jiayi to install two to increase production capacity.

Due to the successful publication of newspapers, the small house where the magic copy machine was originally installed has been successfully upgraded to a newspaper. To be precise, it is a printing agency. The office area of ​​the newspaper is not far away.

Jiayi's movable type printing is not convenient than a magic copywriter. Moreover, the layout is more mechanical and can be used with fewer fonts, which is not as convenient as a magic copywriter. Fortunately, Jiayi used a font mold to solve the problem of casting movable type, otherwise it would not be very convenient to have a complete set of movable type for printing.

Compared with magic copywriters, the only advantage of movable type printing is that the machine is low in cost and the threshold for production is not high, so the energy required is more cost-effective. In addition to using magic, animal power can also be used as the power for printing.

If you want to increase the magic copy machine, it is not only a matter of cost, but also a big problem is that you need to book. It takes at least two months to arrive, so Yaner thought about asking Jiayi to install two movable type printing machines in the newspaper.

Jiayi felt a sense of urgency and hoped to promote movable type printing before Jade and his friends succeeded, because movable type has a very huge defect, which restricted the application of movable type printing. This is actually not bad among alphabetical characters, but for ideographic characters or hieroglyphs represented by Chinese characters, this defect restricted movable type printing.

After the printing of movable type, movable type needs to be disassembled and reused, which leads to the need to reprint if the book and magazine are sold out, and it is very inconvenient to re-type it.

Fortunately, there are few newspapers nowadays, and typesetting is not a problem. If Gwen's large book with hundreds of thousands of words is rearranged, his heart will be broken.

Jade and his methods avoided this defect. It was only when Jiayi started to make movable type printing machines recently that he realized why China's movable type printing has developed so slowly, especially the number of Chinese characters is large, and casting is also troublesome.

If Jiayi had not used a casting machine made by a model, it would have been more restricted to cast new characters easily.

Jiayi almost didn't rest, and he didn't even take classes from professors who he thought were not very important. He spent the rest of his time at the newspaper office, and even brought a small magic furnace over.

He rushed forward and spent several days in a row. Finally, before the college officially took off, he installed the movable type printing machine. Thanks to the help of Yangxi's machine tool workshop, otherwise the time would not have been so fast.

Among them, he also improved his printing press and font molds. First, he combined font molds of different specifications and made a word casting machine, with a box that stores font molds, font mold arrangements of different specifications and models, and then made a keyboard to help typeface.

But when there is a shortage of letters, you can use the keyboard to select letters or punctuation points of the corresponding specifications and models. After selection, the letters are fixedly sent to the casting furnace, and poured with molten lead alloy, and the letters are automatically poured out. Originally, he used small lead blocks to forge, but it took time to make lead blocks, so it was more convenient to use molten lead alloy to melt and cast directly.

In addition to the word casting machine, Jiayi added two movable type printing machines. On the bracket is a roller, a flat plate at the bottom, and a movable type for printing on the roller. On the other side, there is a cotton stick that automatically inks. The cotton stick automatically inks the roller, and then rolls it into a page of newspaper, and then the next page.

Because in the academy, Jiayi did not use other power, but used magic to drive the roller to rotate. However, this is a bit bad. When printing, it can only be printed on one side. If the two sides are printed together, it will easily cause the paper to be damaged. If one side is printed first and the other side is printed immediately, it will easily cause the ink to be stained.

So I can only print one side first, and wait until the ink is dry before printing the other side. However, because of the automatic paper feeding and ink feeding device used, a printing press can print more than 1,000 pages of paper in an hour, but because it is a single side and uses an element pool as a power supply, it is not much faster than a magic copywriter.

However, due to the addition of two printing machines, the printing speed of the entire newspaper has been greatly enhanced.

In order to ensure that the fonts of the content printed by the three machines are exactly the same, you need to first use a movable type printing machine to print, and then use the finished printing product as a template on the magic copy machine.

At this time, the college's newspapers gradually began to spread farther away.

Because of the borrowed networks of Scoll and other chambers of commerce, newspaper circulation did not use airships for further distances. By the time the newspaper passed, the news on it had become old news.

For example, after the newspaper was passed on, it was more than a month later. Many of the things mentioned above could only be seen in new ways. However, the shape of the newspaper and the carrier did cause a great sensation.

There is only one thing that the newspaper mentioned in the newspaper that Captain Lef Eriksson of Emod Island had passed through the devil's seas and made great progress in the exploration of the new routes, which gave the residents of Emod a great sense of superiority, not only because of the mention of Emod, but also because the news above was already far behind.

Now, nearly 10 fleets of Emod have entered the Devil's Sea. Although there is no latest progress yet, everyone believes that the opening of the new route is only a matter of time.

But this is a later story, because when the college started holidays, these newspapers were not able to be delivered to Emod Island.

After the holiday, Jiayi became a third-grade student. His entire career in the academy has passed one-third. Now Jiayi has become an intermediate gray robe mage, and his speed is not slow. Although he has done many miscellaneous things, he has not let go of his own cultivation, and his magic level has been increasing steadily.

During the first holiday, Jiayi only walked around the academy because of the Elf Rice. Although something almost happened, the harvest was also good. This year, Jiayi decided to go out for a walk.

Machi's hometown is in the Kingdom of Suthern. At the invitation of Machi, they decided to go to the Imod Island of Suthern during this holiday to see the so-called new routes.

This is already a grand event throughout the Suthern Kingdom and around it. There are many participants. Even many people who do not have sonar installed or do not want to risk entering the devil's sea are willing to carry a boat and walk around in front of the devil's sea to show that they have been there.

This is already a popular "tourism project", especially many noble children. They dare not take risks, but they like to show off. Taking a boat to the front of the devil's sea is undoubtedly the most worth showing off. After all, they are people who have been to the devil's sea and escaped unscrupulously.

Because there are too many ships entering and leaving the Devil's Sea recently, some dangerous monsters that were originally patrolling around the Devil's Sea have been driven out or killed, but now it has become unprecedentedly safe.

Of course, not all the noble children are playboys, but these people have long entered the devil's sea with the ship. Regardless of whether they can inherit the family business or not, every aspiring noble child is unwilling to give up this opportunity.
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