Printing Press

The Printing Press is an MV tier singleblock for duplicating enchanted books any number of times. The only requirements are extra books, ink sacs, and a lot of experience levels. Enchanted books are consumed to create enchanted print press plates, which are then used to create three copies of the original. However, it is possible to repair the print press plate after just one or two uses and create even more copies. The most common application of the Printing Press is mass producing Fortune III books for enhancing loot bags, although it can also be useful when enchanting Looting or Sharpness weapons for the Extreme Entity Crusher, or anywhere else where you might need multiples of the same enchantment.

After you have made the first copy of the desired enchantment (E.g. by using the EnderIO Enchanter), you can trade Experience for more copies of the initial book, however the Thaumic Restorer can help lower the experience costs to almost 0 by repairing the print press plates before they wear out, removing the experience cost for a new press. Should you need more experience, the Extreme Entity Crusher can be used gather a lot of experience very quickly, and the EnderIO Experience Obelisk can be used to store/move experience around more easily. The Printing Press can also be automated with Thaumcraft Golems, Steve's Factory Manager, and other highly precise methods.

This block combines enchanted books with Print Press Chases to form a Print Press Plates. You need a Print Press Plate to begin making the book copies.

These are an optional accessory that allow the player to see the amount of experience required to create a new print press plate. There is also the "Reading 1" enchantment which does the same exact thing that can be put on many helmets.

This block uses print press plates to create copies of the original enchanted book. Each copy consumes 1 ink sac, 1 book, and 1 point of durability from the print press plate (3 durability total), meaning that without repairing, each Print Press Plate can craft three copies of the original book.

Place an enchanted book into the bottom left slot of the Typesetting Table and a print press chase in the top slot.

Sneak right-click the enchanted book to consume it and create an enchanted print press plate. If nothing happens, you do not have enough experience levels.

Place the enchanted print press plate into the middle of the Printing Press, ink sacs on the top pedestal, and extra books on the left side of the front counter. The machine automatically starts processing if all three components are present. Each new copy of the enchanted book is placed on the right side of the front counter and halts processing until it is removed. A hopper underneath the Printing Press can automatically pull the enchanted book from the machine.

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  1) The empty Typesetting table.
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  2) Add print press chase(s) to the top slot by right-clicking.
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  3) Add an enchanted book to the bottom left slot by right-clicking.
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  4) Sneak right-click the enchanted book to consume it and create an enchanted print press plate.

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  1) The empty Printing Press
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  2) Place the enchanted print press plate into the machine by right-clicking.
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  3) Apply ink sacs to the top plate by right-clicking.
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  4) Add extra book(s) to the left side of the front counter by right-clicking.
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  5) The Printing Press creates a new copy of the enchanted book and places it on the right side of the front counter.

The following table lists the costs for some of the most common enchantments. Note that the EnderIO Enchanter and Typesetting Table both consume experience levels instead of experience points; exceeding the minimum level requirement consumes far more experience than necessary. Try using the EnderIO experience obelisk to store/request very specific amounts of experience. The contents of the experience obelisk are saved when broken.