File talk:Spread-of-printing.gif

can the frame rate B increased 59.182.152.45 (talk) 20:05, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Geographically biased
Movable type or printing press did not origin from Germany,but in East Asia.--Ksyrie(Talkie talkie) 11:43, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

comments
This is great fun, but it is slightly silly to see the modern boundaries used - Alaska & Siberia come on before they were occupied by Western powers. China, even just using Western presses should be rather earlier I think. Johnbod (talk) 04:18, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

This is not even Fun, this is just awful and should be deleted. Using modern boundaries means separating regions that were one political or economical unit when printing was introduced. Also there are considerable errors within the graphics. For example: Printing seems not to have reached Austria, although the Wiener Zeitung [] is currently the world's oldest newspaper, being printed since 1703. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.170.63.26 (talk) 09:33, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

delete this
really needs to be deleted, it makes no sense to use modern boundaries to show this (i.e. the entirety of the modern USA getting the printing press before europeans had even explored beyond the ohio valley, whilst what is now Canada not getting it until 50 years later despite both still being a british colony at th time) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.114.87.236 (talk) 19:53, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Concur Billhpike (talk) 03:41, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Image needs a major edit
As described in the updated description of the image, it needs a major update to include the facts stated there. For example, Bulgaria is mentioned as left out from the map, but data is given about the year of the introduction of the printing press Also, it would be better if the future version lists the names of the countries that the printing press has been introduced to in each year or time period and also the first widely circulated (or historically documented/notable) printed work for each country. Also, the "modern boundaries bias" discussed above is also worth considering. --Ve4ernik (talk) 04:36, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Many countries are missing
Many countries are missing, for example Lithuania (1522 by Francysk Skaryna).