Technology

The pamphlet was created through wooden stencils by Lucas Kranach. He used a Printing Press, of the model that Gutenberg created in 1450, which made the publication easy and much more efficient. He was able to get wood cheaply and inserted the stencils into the printing press. The letters were made of metal and were common practice in the mid-1500s, as the printing press had spread all across Europe by this point. Parchment, was also cheaply available, making it very economically efficient to produce the pamphlet. 

The wooden stencils of the illustrations would be inserted into the printing press first and pressed onto the parchment, then the letters would be inserted, and the words printed below the illustrations on the parchment. This went quickly and made the pamphlet very quickly spread and available in high quantities. 

Due to the use of illustrations, the pamphlet became extremely popular and had to be reprinted seven times in the first year of publishing, as all copies had been given out at this point. Due to the high availability, it made the destruction of all copies by the HRE difficult and made it possible for the pamphlet to survive the censorship through the empire.