"For each character, he made a seal, and baked it in fire to make it hard." — From Shen Kuo, 'Dream Pool Essays', Volume 18, ...

Speaker: Zhaohui He | 何朝晖, Professor, Institute for Classical Philology, Advanced Institute for Confucian Studies, Shandong University. Movable-type printing flourished during the Ming dynasty. This ...

Few people in history have had as great an impact on the world as Johannes Gutenberg. In the 15th century, the German inventor introduced movable-type printing to Europe, sparking a revolution that ...

CHM copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "The Visual History of Type' is a comprehensive, detailed survey of the major typefaces produced since the advent of printing with ...

Researchers turn to synchrotron imaging of historical and homemade prints to explore possible connections between early printing methods in Korea and Europe. The history of printing goes further back ...

Researchers turn to synchrotron imaging of historical and homemade prints to explore possible connections between early printing methods in Korea and Europe. A map of a Korean text illuminates how ...