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The printer's primary purpose is to produce [[Stereotype (printing)|stereotype]] plates for use in printing presses, which it does by pressing type into soft plaster to create a [[flong]]. Babbage intended that the Engine's results be conveyed directly to mass printing, having recognized that many errors in previous tables were not the result of human calculating mistakes but from slips in the manual [[typesetting]] process.<ref name="Campbell-Kelly 2004" /> The printer's paper output is mainly a means of checking the engine's performance.
In addition to funding the construction of the output mechanism for the Science Museum's difference engine, [[Nathan Myhrvold]] commissioned the construction of a second complete Difference Engine No. 2, which was on exhibit at the [[Computer History Museum]] in [[Mountain View, California]] from May 2008 to January 2016.<ref name="CHM Press Releases" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/babbage/ |title=The Babbage Difference Engine No. 2 |publisher=Computer History Museum |access-date=2018-10-26 }}</ref><ref name="chm2">{{cite web |author-link=Daniel Terdiman |last=Terdiman |first=Daniel |date=April 10, 2008 |title=Charles Babbage's masterpiece difference engine comes to Silicon Valley |url=https://www.cnet.com/culture/charles-babbages-masterpiece-difference-engine-comes-to-silicon-valley/ |work=[[CNET News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Noack |first=Mark |title=Computer Museum bids farewell to Babbage engine |url=https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2016/01/29/computer-museum-bids-farewell-to-babbage-engine |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=Mv-voice.com }}</ref> It has since been transferred to [[Intellectual Ventures]] in [[Seattle]] where it is on display just outside the main lobby.<ref>{{
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