Having sold this business, he removed to Suhl in Thuringia.

Here he was occupied with a stereotyping process, suggested by what he had read about the art as perfected in England by Earl Stanhope.

He also contrived an improved press, provided with a moveable carriage, on which the types were placed, with inking rollers, and a new mechanical method of taking off the impression by flat pressure.
Koenig brought his new machine under the notice of the leading printers in Germany, but they would not undertake to use it.

The plan seemed to them too complicated and costly.

He tried to enlist men of capital in his scheme, but they all turned a deaf ear to him.