Eventually, instead of printing from these directly, he employed them to stamp out intermediate dies which were then used as moulds to mass produce letter blocks made of a lead alloy.

渐渐地，他不再直接使用这些小钢块，而是利用它们压制出中等大小的模具，用这些模具可以批量生产出铅合金的字母块。

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Eventually, instead of printing from these directly, he employed them to stamp out intermediate dies which were then used as moulds to mass produce letter blocks made of a lead alloy.

渐渐地，他不再直接使用这些小钢块，而是利用它们压制出中等大小的模具，用这些模具可以批量生产出铅合金的字母块。

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