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Coster, Laurens Janszoon
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Coster, Laurens Janszoon (c. 1370–1440)

Dutch printer. According to some sources, he invented movable type, but after his death an apprentice ran off to Mainz with the blocks and, taking Johann Gutenberg into his confidence, began a printing business with him.



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