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  2. Woodblock printing - Wikipedia

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    Woodblock printing existed in Tang China by the 7th century AD and remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century. Ukiyo-e is the best-known type of Japanese woodblock art print.

  3. History of printing in East Asia - Wikipedia

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    A fragment of a dharani print in Sanskrit and Chinese, c. 650–670, Tang dynasty The Great Dharani Sutra, one of the world's oldest surviving woodblock prints, c. 704-751 The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang-dynasty China, 868 AD (British Museum), the earliest extant printed text bearing a date of printing Colophon to the Diamond Sutra dating the year of printing to 868

  4. History of printing - Wikipedia

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    Printing press from 1811, photographed in Munich, Germany. A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring an image. The systems involved were first assembled in Germany by the goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century. [101]

  5. Science and technology of the Tang dynasty - Wikipedia

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    A Chinese printed playing card dated c. 1400 AD, Ming dynasty, found near Turpan, measuring 9.5 by 3.5 cm.. Playing cards may have been invented during the Tang dynasty around the ninth century AD as a result of the usage of woodblock printing technology.

  6. Movable type - Wikipedia

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    These were used to print designs on fabrics and to print texts. By about the 8th century during the Tang dynasty, woodblock printing was invented and worked as follows. First, the neat hand-copied script was stuck on a relatively thick and smooth board, with the front of the paper sticking to the board, the paper being so thin it was ...

  7. Wood type - Wikipedia

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    Wooden movable types in the China Printing Museum, Beijing. Both in China and Europe, printing from a woodblock preceded printing with movable type. [12]Along with clay movable type, wooden movable type was invented in China by Bi Sheng in 1040s CE/AD, although he found clay type more satisfactory, and it was first formally used to print by Wang Zhen.

  8. Dunhuang manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript. The Dunhuang manuscripts are a wide variety of religious and secular documents (mostly manuscripts, including hemp, silk, paper and woodblock-printed texts) in Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages that were discovered by Paul Pelliot and Aurel Stein at the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, Gansu, China, from 1906 to 1909.

  9. China Printing Museum - Wikipedia

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    The China Printing Museum (Chinese: 中国印刷博物馆; pinyin: zhōngguó yìnshuā bówùguǎn) is a public museum dedicated to printing, located in Beijing, China. Established in 1996, the China Printing Plate Museum is the largest museum on printing in the world. [ 1 ]