None of the earliest Wittenberg printers were particularly accomplished, and they had at their disposal only a limited range of types. Marschalk, operating his press as a private concern and essentially as an extension of his scholarly work as a teacher of Greek, possessed some Greek type. This had most likely been obtained through the good offices of Wolfgang Schenk, the Erfurt printer with whom he had worked before coming to Wittenberg. But this veneer of sophistication could not disguise the relative poverty of the range of fonts available to Wittenberg’s first printers.
