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carving letters from bark for the amusement of his grandchildren, and observed that the letters left impressions on the sand. He proceeded to invent a new type of ink that did not run, and he began a printing company based on his invention with a primitive typesetting arrangement using moveable type.
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that printed banknotes and later postage stamps. Just as it had been in
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language. Most people who could afford a book wanted it to be in French, since that was the common language of the ruling classes. Perhaps the strongest evidence in favor of
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about a decade after Coster's death. However, the first securely dated book by Dutch printers is from 1471, long after
Gutenberg. Either way, Coster is somewhat of a Haarlem local "hero", and apart from a statue on the
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