Before the invention of the printing press — sometime between 1440 and 1450 — most European texts were printed using xylography, a form of woodblock printing similar to the Chinese method used ...

From hand-copied manuscripts to high-speed digital presses, printing has reshaped the world. This video traces the journey from woodblock printing to Gutenberg’s movable type and beyond ...

Unlike block printing, Gutenberg’s press featured a movable “key” for each individual letter and symbol. “Since letters could be arranged into any format, an infinite variety of texts ...

Nearly four centuries before Johannes Gutenberg produced the first Bible on a printing press ... then transferred the page to a wood block while the ink was still wet. Only then could the carver ...

The printing press marks the turning point from ... Although the Chinese were using woodblock printing many centuries earlier, with a complete printed book, made in 868, found in a cave ...

A project aiming to revive the the art of woodblock printing has recently been launched by local artisans in collaboration with the Centre for Research, Development, and Application of Vietnamese ...

Stories of triumphs and tragedies from around the world filter daily through Rockaway Township. A few miles off Interstate 80 lies a 352,461-square-foot facility. There are three massive printing ...