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The first printing workshop in Mainz was a joint venture undertaken by Johann Gutenberg, the financier Johann Fust, and Peter Schöffer (circa 1425–circa 1502). Schöffer, the youngest of the three, had studied at the University of Erfurt between 1444 and 1448 and worked as a calligrapher in Paris in 1449. He thus combined necessary theoretical knowledge with practical experience in the area of book production. His contributions to the further development of printing seem to have focused mainly on imitating as many characteristics of manuscripts as possible without having ...