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Printing press, a Rare card
A printing press is a machine that applies pressure to transfer ink onto a surface made of paper, cloth, or a similar material.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 175
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 430,000
Ranked #899 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Its workers are known as printing press operators.
- It marked a significant improvement on earlier methods, in which the paper was rubbed by hand to transfer applied ink to the printing surface.
- The printing press was invented by the German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, and its subsequent global spread revolutionized literary production and communication during the early modern period.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Printing press article was read about 430,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Printing press (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : International Printing Museum, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
