Printing Press
The Printing Press prints Newspapers: any Story and 10 Clean Paper make 20 of them. It also binds Blank Hardcover Notebooks (2 softcover ones and a Golden ingot) and prints the Glossary and the red, green and blue Techbooks. It comes with Newspaper (30 red, 10 green, 20 blue) and costs 3 Oiled Beams, 2 Bronze Gears and 6 Iron Details. It is built in the writing room under your house.
Newspapers are what the PR Machine runs on, to keep your zombie count under the limit. The first level takes only Charged hypno-devices, but from the second on it wants newspapers by the dozen, and by the hundred at the top: 100 three-star newspapers for PR Machine V.
Build cost
The cost depends on where it is built.
| Where | Build cost | Demolishing returns |
|---|---|---|
| — |  Oiled Beam ×6 Bronze Gear ×2 Iron Detail ×6 | Oiled Beam ×2 Bronze Gear ×1 Iron Detail ×3 |
| — | Oiled Beam ×3 Bronze Gear ×2 Iron Detail ×6 |  Wooden beam ×3 Bronze Gear ×2 Iron Detail ×6 |
Crafted here (14)
| Ingredients | Outputs | Mastery | Duration | Tech points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ink ×2  Story ★★★ ×1 |  4 | 8 | 22 | |
 Newspaper ★ ×20 Story ★★ ×1 | Newspaper ★★ × 20 ( Paper maker +10 · Dead printer +10 ) | 9 | 12 | 44 |
| Newspaper ★★ ×20 Story ★★★ ×1 | Newspaper ★★★ × 20 ( Paper maker +10 · Dead printer +10 ) | 10 | 16 | 44 |
Story any quality ×1  Clean Paper ×10 | Newspaper ★–★★★ × 20 ( Paper maker +10 · Dead printer +10 ) | 8 | 10 | 44 |
 Golden ingot ×1 | 4 | 8 | 3 | |
Clean Paper ×10  Paint ×1 |  Printed Money ×10 | 4 | 4 | 44 |
| Ink ×1 Story ★★ ×1 | 6 | 12 | 13 | |
| Ink ×1 Story ★★★ ×1 | 10 | 16 | 15 | |
| Ink ×1 Story ★★ ×1 | 6 | 12 | 13 | |
| Ink ×1 Story ★★★ ×1 | 10 | 16 | 15 | |
| Ink ×1 Story ★★ ×1 |  Red Techbook ×1 | 6 | 12 | 13 |
| Ink ×1 Story ★★★ ×1 | 10 | 16 | 15 | |
| Ink ×1 Story ★★★ ×1 |  Glossary ×1 | 4 | 16 | 93 |
| Ink ×3 Story ★★★ ×3 |  Trilogy ×1 | 7 | 8 | 55 |
Notes
- The technology needs Gunter’s reputation 20. Its node on the tree is labelled 30, but the game checks for 20.
- Printing is a star craft, and the Story’s quality does not matter. The stars you get decide the newspapers’ quality, from any Story. Printing needs Book writing 8; at or above it you always get three stars. The two upgrade recipes turn 20 newspapers and a better Story into better newspapers, one star at a time.
- A zombie prints three-star newspapers every time. It never fails a step and needs only 1 Book writing, which a Primer in its hand gives. That makes the upgrade recipes unnecessary. This is worked out from the game code and has not been checked in play.
- Techbooks turn Stories into tech points. Self-Help Books (50 of each colour) lets you print a Techbook worth 25 points from a notebook, Ink and a two-star Story; Self-Help Books II (100 of each) prints the 50-point kind from a hardcover notebook and a three-star Story.
- The Oiled Beams need the Circular Saw, which waits on Jack’s reputation 40.
- Dismantling it returns 2 Oiled Beams, 1 Bronze Gear and 3 Iron Details.
- Three story items are printed here, each unlocked by its quest: Printed Poetry for Gunter in Rhyme and Printed, Printed Money in Press for Cash, and the Trilogy in Well-Deserved Rest.