Chapter 424: The Newspaper
Because of the newspaper.
Some people get the latest news from their hometown to dispel their thoughts, some people applaud the successive inventions of the blank paper, and some people are interested in the latest discoveries in the wizarding world, after all, more people actually don't have the ability to read papers, and they want to have some understanding of the wizarding world, so there is actually a demand for the popularization of magical knowledge.
There are also people who are very interested in the novels serialized above, but because it is only the first chapter, it has not caused too many reactions.
As the thousands of newly printed newspapers were snapped up the next day, the market of the academy and Beishui City was slightly filled, but the huge demand was still surging in waves, making Yanel painful and happy.
Jia Yi was also pulled over, and he was not needed for the printing of newspapers, but Yanel took a fancy to his movable type printing press and wanted Jia Yi to install two to increase production capacity.
Because of the successful distribution of the newspaper, the small house with the magic copier has been successfully upgraded to a newspaper, to be precise, a printing office, and the office area of the newspaper is not far away.
Jiayi's movable type printing is not more convenient than the magic copyer, and the typesetting is more mechanical, there are fewer fonts that can be selected, and it is not as convenient as the magic copyer, fortunately, Jiayi uses the word mold to solve the casting problem of movable type, otherwise it is not very convenient to have a complete set of movable type for printing.
Compared with the magic copy machine, the only advantage of movable type printing is that the cost of the machine is low, and the threshold for production is not high, and the energy required is more economical.
If you want to increase the magic copier, it is not only a matter of cost, but also a big problem is that you need to make a reservation, and it will take at least two months to wait for the arrival of the goods, so Yanel thought of asking Kaichi to install two movable type printing presses in the newspaper office.
Jiayi has a sense of urgency, hoping to promote movable type printing before they succeed, because movable type has a very huge flaw, so that the application of movable type printing is limited, which is actually fine in alphabetic writing, but in the case of ideograms or hieroglyphs represented by Chinese characters, this defect makes movable type printing limited.
After the movable type printing is completed, it needs to be dismantled and reused, which leads to the need to reprint the book if it is sold out, and it is very inconvenient.
It is also fortunate that the current newspaper has few pages, and the typesetting is not troublesome, if Gwen's tome of hundreds of thousands of words is rearranged, my heart will be broken.
And Jed's method avoids this defect, and Jiayi only recently began to make movable type printing presses, but also recently when he really started to make movable type printing presses, why the development of movable type printing in China is so slow, especially the large number of Chinese characters, and the casting is also troublesome.
If it weren't for the casting machine made by Jiayi using the model to easily cast new characters, movable type printing would be more limited.
Kaichi barely rested, not even attending the professor's classes that he didn't think were important, and spent the rest of his time at the newspaper office, and even brought a small magic furnace over.
It took him several days to finally install the movable type printing press before the academy officially closed for the holidays. Thanks to the help of the machine tool workshop in Yangxi, otherwise the time would never have been so fast.
Among them, he also made improvements to his printing press and typefaces, first he combined different specifications of typefacets, made a typewriter, a box to store typefaces, different specifications and models, different fonts of typesets arrangement, and then made a keyboard to help typesetting.
But when there is a letter missing, you can use the keyboard to select the corresponding specifications and models of letters or punctuation, after the selection, the letters are fixed into the casting furnace, using molten lead alloy for pouring, and automatically pouring out the letters. Originally, he used small lead blocks that had already been made for forging, but it took time to make lead blocks, and it was not as convenient as directly using lead alloy casting.
In addition to the typewriter, Jiayi added two movable type printing machines, on the top of the bracket is a cylinder, at the bottom of a flat plate, on the cylinder is the movable type for printing, on the other side, is an automatic inking cotton stick, the cotton stick automatically inking the cylinder, and then a roll is exactly a page of newspaper, followed by the next page.
Because in the academy, Kaichi did not use another power, but used magic to drive the drum to turn. It's just that this is a little bad, when printing, it can only be printed on one side, if both sides are printed together, it is easy to break the paper, and if one side is printed first, it is easy to let the ink stain.
So you can only print one side first, wait until the ink is dry, and then print the other side. However, because of the automatic feeding and inking device, a printing machine can print more than 1,000 pages of paper in an hour, but because it is single-sided and uses an element pool as a power, it is not much faster than a magic duplicator.
However, thanks to the addition of two printing presses, the printing speed of the entire newspaper office has been greatly increased.
In order to ensure that the font of the content printed by the three machines is exactly the same, it is necessary to use the movable type printing machine first, and then use the printed product as a template on the magic duplicator.
At this time, the college's newspaper slowly began to spread farther afield.
Because of the network borrowed from Skoll and other chambers of commerce, for further afield, the circulation of newspapers did not use airships, and by the time the newspapers passed, the news on them had become old news.
For example, in Amod Island, after the newspaper was delivered, it was already more than a month later, and many things on it could only be seen as fresh, but for the shape of the newspaper, as well as the carrier, this kind of paper did cause a great sensation.
Only one point is that the newspaper mentions that Captain Leif Eriksson of Eimod Island has crossed the Devil's Sea, and that the exploration of new shipping routes has made great progress, which gives the inhabitants of Amod a great sense of superiority, not only because of the mention of Elmod, but also because the news on it has fallen far behind.
Now, Amod has nearly 10 fleets into the Devil's Sea, and although there is no latest development, everyone believes that it is only a matter of time before a new route is opened.
But that's a story for later, because when the college started its holidays, the newspapers hadn't been able to reach Al Mode Island.
After the vacation, Jia Yi is a third-year student, and the entire academy has spent one-third of his career, and now Jia Yi has become an intermediate gray-robed mage, and the speed is not slow, although he has done a lot of miscellaneous things, but his own cultivation has not been put down, and the level of magic has been steadily increasing.
During the first year's vacation, Jiayi only walked around the academy because of the elf rice, although he almost had an accident, but the harvest was also good, and this year, Jiayi decided to go out for a walk.
March's hometown is in the Kingdom of Suthern, and at the invitation of March, they decide to go to the Isle of Eimod in the Kingdom of Suthern this holiday to see the so-called opening of new shipping routes.
In and around the entire kingdom of Suthern, this is already a grand event, and 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 set up a boat and come to the front of the Devil's Sea to take a circle, indicating that they have been there.
This is already a popular "tourism project", especially many noble children, they dare not take risks, but love to show off, taking a boat to the Devil's Sea in front of a circle is undoubtedly the most worthy of showing off, how to say that it is also a person who has been to the Devil's Sea and retreated.
Due to the large number of ships in and out of the Devil's Sea recently, some dangerous Warcraft Krakens that used to patrol the vicinity of the Devil's Sea have been expelled or hunted, but now this place has never been safer.
Of course, the children of the nobles are not all gentlemen, but these people have long entered the Devil's Sea with the ship, and whether they can inherit the family business or not, every aspiring noble child is unwilling to give up this opportunity.
If you can achieve something, even if you can't inherit the family business, you can get a good inheritance.