"Take the existing piece and use it to make a mold for the new ones."

"You said a process to make the first."

"Oh.  No, I didn't have specific steps in mind for that - 'process', there, was metonymy for 'that'll probably take a while to get done properly'.  Was figuring it'd either be sculpted or whittled, and while troportation is so much cheating at making stuff, you would have to work to a pretty tight tolerance for error, probably with fallible human hands since I still have no fucking clue what a lathe is.  It's gonna fucking haunt me, I swear.  ...That was a joke, just to be clear, I'm not actually haunted, nor expecting to be haunted.  Just annoyed with my memory."

"...okay."

"...ye-ah, I'm probably overcorrecting my how-to-talk-to-people models somewhere.  ...Where were we, anyway - any other questions?"

"Not - especially? I'll show this to my boss later and we might work up a model of it."

"Cool, that's good.  It is my design, I want to be clear.  If I'm giving you industrial revelations, I want fair compensation.  If nothing else because I have nothing else to offer, and can't yet make something from nothing - though I'm sure that I'll try, someday."

She sighs.

"At least here I'm somewhat useful, if mostly only in theoretical matters."

"I don't actually know what would typically be fair for something like this."

"...Admittedly, I don't necessarily have too much of an idea either, but I know some things.  Regardless, that's probably a matter for your boss.  You know when they'll be around?"

"In a sand or so."

"Mhm."

Well, she can occupy herself by re-designing bicycles, in the meantime.  Or maybe tricycles, or quad-cycles, but still, wheeled, geared, pedal powered people movers.

Has she seen people with hand-pulled wagons-or-similar?

Yup, people have wheelbarrows and animal-drawn carts and stuff.

...English or Chinese wheelbarrows?  Now that she's thinking about them.

More like Chinese ones.

Well, that's...good.  Vaguely annoying, honestly, but much better that they have it than she need to introduce the idea.

She could invent tires, though.  And possibly the modern suspension.

Eventually another person shows up.

"Who's this?"

"I didn't get her name. Some kind of eccentric inventor," says the printer.

"I'd hardly claim all the credit for what I'm designing, there's a whole history of invention that I'm pulling from, but that's a decent gloss.  Mira Grant; pleasure to meet you both."

"I'm Parsley," says the first printer.

"Prism," says the boss.

"What does Mira Grant mean?" asks Parsley.

"It doesn't, really; my home nation's primary spoken language and associated culture mostly doesn't name people after recognizable things, though as with all things English-language, it's riddled with exceptions.  I suppose 'Grant' - grant," she names several different meanings, "- has a meaning, but that's more often a verb than a noun."

"You have a different native language? Say something in it," says Prism.

"Sure, I can do that."  She stops doing the translation thing.  "This is a test; this is only a test.  The Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device is functional under temperatures of up to 3000 Kelvin.  According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bumblebee should be able to fly.  But bees fly anyway, because they don't care what humans think is impossible.  To be, or not to be, that is the question; whether 'tis nobler to face the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up arms, and by so opposing, end them -"

She resumes translating her words.

"How's that for some random English?"

"Wow, wild," laughs Prism. "Are there lots of you, do we need to start making English letters?"

"I'm the only one of me I know is anywhere around here, and given how weird the way I got here was, I wouldn't expect to see anyone else from the same region unless someone actually shows up.

"So I wouldn't think there's much of a market for English type."

"All right. And you're here because you're an inventor, I guess?" says Prism, glancing at the double-sided printing spec that Parsley has handed him.

"Yeah, I'm looking for a way to get some of the conveniences of back home re-invented, and while that's probably a lifetime's work or more to get it done properly, I'll settle for hot and cold running water, and indoor lighting that doesn't involve fire.  I'm here in particular because I figured y'all'd have some of the relevant skillset to build industrial mechanisms, or know who would have it, since the printing press is fiddly."