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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


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