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Pringting of Woodcarving Type

by Fan Daomin

Conception of a family kindred is very strong in China. Still in some area, lots of people like to keep their pedigree well, and so the way of woodcarving type in printing can exist.


Here exists the way of printing by woodcarving type in the yard.	To finish a type, it takes almost ten minutes.	different size	Master Wang Chaohui


print when typeset	divide work to keep good order	strong strine to bind according to the traditional way	Looking at the old stemma	the new production

Bi Sheng (Song Dynasty) created the printing way by woodcarving type, which reformed the history of printing.Now, as the time goes, the printing way is changing following the steps of technology