The Printing Press is where paper turns into money and knowledge: printed money, poetry, the red/green/blue techbooks and the newspaper upgrades all come off this station.
Build cost & research
Building
Recipes
Build cost
Where
Unlocked by
Printing Press
14
Oiled Beam ×6 Bronze Gear ×2 Iron Detail ×6
Writing Room
Newspaper 30R
Costs and research come straight from the game data, and “Where” is the work zone whose build desk offers the building — the game’s own placement record. “No research listed” means the page has none to show: either this build records none, or the game ships no name for it. In practice these rows are gated by materials, not by the tech tree.
Printing Press 14
Output
Ingredients
Ticks
Inspiration lv
Tech
Unlocked by
Tags
Blank Hardcover Notebook
Blank Softcover Notebook ×2 Golden ingot ×1
8
4
R 3
Writing Tools II
Glossary
Blank Hardcover Notebook ×1 Ink ×1 Story ×1 ★3
16
4
R 9B 3
Writing Tools II
Newspaper ×20
Stories ×1 Clean Paper ×10
10
8
R 4B 4
Newspaper
silver 6 · gold 10
Newspaper ×20★2
Newspaper ×20 ★1 Story ×1 ★2
12
9
R 4B 4
Books II
Newspaper ×20★3
Newspaper ×20 ★2 Story ×1 ★3
16
10
R 4B 4
Storytelling I
Printed Money ×10
Clean Paper ×10 Paint ×1
4
4
R 4B 4
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Printed Poetry
Blank Softcover Notebook ×1 Ink ×2 Story ×1 ★3
8
4
R 2B 2
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Red Techbook
Blank Softcover Notebook ×1 Ink ×1 Story ×1 ★2
12
6
R 1B 3
Self-Help Books
Green Techbook
Blank Softcover Notebook ×1 Ink ×1 Story ×1 ★2
12
6
R 1B 3
Self-Help Books
Blue Techbook
Blank Softcover Notebook ×1 Ink ×1 Story ×1 ★2
12
6
R 1B 3
Self-Help Books
Red Techbook II
Blank Hardcover Notebook ×1 Ink ×1 Story ×1 ★3
16
10
R 1B 5
Self-Help Books II
Green Techbook II
Blank Hardcover Notebook ×1 Ink ×1 Story ×1 ★3
16
10
R 1B 5
Self-Help Books II
Blue Techbook II
Blank Hardcover Notebook ×1 Ink ×1 Story ×1 ★3
16
10
R 1B 5
Self-Help Books II
Trilogy
Blank Hardcover Notebook ×3 Ink ×3 Story ×3 ★3
8
7
G 5B 5
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“Inspiration lv” is the level this station’s own inspiration track has to reach — below it the recipe is not offered. “Needs” is the extension that has to stand next to the station before the recipe appears.
What these products feed
Product
Used by recipes
Stations
Blank Hardcover Notebook
9
Writing Desk · Printing Press
Newspaper
2
Printing Press
Only products with a follow-up recipe are listed; anything missing is not consumed by a recipe in this build.
Where the inputs come from
Input
Used here
Produced at
Story
11
Writing Desk
Ink
9
Writing Desk
Blank Softcover Notebook
5
Writing Desk
Blank Hardcover Notebook
5
Printing Press
Clean Paper
2
Writing Desk · Paper Press
Newspaper
2
Printing Press
Golden ingot
1
Furnace II · Formulation Bench
Stories
1
no producing row
Paint
1
Oiled Beam build cost
—
Woodworking Workbench II
Bronze Gear build cost
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Iron Anvil · Steel Anvil
Iron Detail build cost
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Iron Anvil · Steel Anvil
“Used here” counts how often the input appears in this page’s recipes and build costs; “no producing row” means the recipe, alchemy and crop tables all come up empty — you gather, hunt, buy or loot it instead.
Common questions
What does the printing press cost?
6× Oiled Beam + 2× Bronze Gear + 6× Iron Detail. The Oiled Beam is the expensive part: beams need the Circular Saw, and oiling them needs Melted Fat from the Distillation Cube.
Can you print money?
There is a Printed Money recipe on this station, and a Printing Press recipe on it too — you can build another press from the first one. Ticks and inputs are in the table below.
What are the techbooks for?
Six recipes cover Red/Green/Blue Techbook I and II. They are the printed form of the research you are missing, which is how the writing chain feeds back into the tech tree.