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He is thought to have first come into contact with the printing world around 1608 or 1609, learning from the work of other Christian Chinese printers such as Juan de Vera, Pedro de Vera and Luis Beltran, who had already printed several books for Spanish missionaries. Pinpin started working as an apprentice at the printing press in Abucay in 1609.
Francisco Blancas de San José made a significant print contribution with "Arte y reglas de la lengua tagala," a grammar book in the native language of the Philippines. Published in Bataan in 1610, this work, printed on papel de China (rice paper), was considered authoritative by missionaries, aiding in the dissemination of the Catholic faith.
In 1593, the Dominicans pioneered printing in the Philippines by producing through the old technique of xylography, a wooden block printing press which was exhibited at the UST Museum of Arts and Sciences. In 1602, the Dominican Blancas de San Jose together with a Chinese convert in Binondo made molds, types and instruments needed for typography.
He was among the first group of Franciscan missionaries who arrived in the Philippines on 2 July 1578. [ 2 ] He spent most of his missionary life in the Philippines , where he founded numerous towns in Luzon and authored several religious and linguistic books, most notably the Doctrina Cristiana (Christian Doctrine), the first book ever printed ...
Colonial Printing in Mexico: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Library of Congress in 1939 commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of printing in the New World. U.S. G.P.O. McDermott, Joseph P. (2006), A Social History of the Chinese Book
Vibal Publishing House, Inc. (also known as Vibal Group, Inc., Vibal, or VPHI) is a major publishing house in the Philippines based in Quezon City. Vibal was founded in 1953 by Hilarion P. Vibal and by his wife, Esther Asuncion-Vibal. [1] Vibal is a textbook, reference materials, and multimedia products publisher and is the biggest in the country.
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The pioneers of photography in the Philippines were Western photographers, mostly from Europe.The practice of taking photographs and the opening of the first photo studios in Spanish Philippines, from the 1840s to the 1890s, were driven by the following reasons: photographs were used as a medium of news and information about the colony, as a tool for tourism, as an fork anthropology, as a ...