Printing technology and system based on reconfigurable blocks of glyphs
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History of printing
Techniques
Woodblock printing
200
Movable type
1040
Intaglio (printmaking)
1430
Printing press
c. 1440
Etching
c. 1515
Mezzotint
1642
Relief printing
1690
Aquatint
1772
Lithography
1796
Chromolithography
1837
Rotary press
1843
Hectograph
1860
Offset printing
1875
Hot metal typesetting
1884
Mimeograph
1885
Daisy wheel printing
1889
Photostat and rectigraph
1907
Screen printing
1911
Spirit duplicator
1923
Dot matrix printing
1925
Xerography
1938
Spark printing
1940
Phototypesetting
1949
Inkjet printing
1950
Dye-sublimation
1957
Laser printing
1969
Thermal printing
c. 1972
Solid ink printing
1972
Thermal-transfer printing
1981
3D printing
1986
Digital printing
1991
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Movable type (US English; moveable type in British English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric characters or punctuation marks) usually on the medium of paper.
Movabletype (US English; moveable type in British English) is the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce...
MovableType is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart. It was publicly announced on September 3, 2001; version 1.0 was publicly...
textual printing in the publishing industry Type can refer to a font style, e.g., "italic type" Movabletype, in letterpress printing Sort (typesetting)...
book documented instructions on how to use the copper movabletype. The use of metal movabletype spread to Korea by the 13th century during the Goryeo...
use of copper movabletypes was documented in a Song-era book from 1193, and the earliest printed paper money using movable metal type to print the identifying...
that century. Later developments in printing technology include the movabletype invented by Bi Sheng around 1040 AD and the printing press invented by...
collection. About 4 percent of it was printed in movabletype in 1773, but it was hand-carved movable wooden type. Indeed, the entire collection was only printed...
technologies such as movabletype, the letterpress, and lithography. Chinese alchemist Pi Sheng invented the concept of movabletype, circa 1045 CE. He...
page, unless the page is printed twice. Traditional text printing with movabletype is also a relief technique. This meant that woodcuts were much easier...
rapid expansion of woodblock printing and the 11th-century invention of movabletype printing. Philosophers such as Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi reinvigorated Confucianism...
the printing press began with the invention of the printing press with movabletype by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany c. 1439. Western printing technology...
precise and rapid creation of metal movabletype in large quantities. His two inventions, the hand mould and the movable-type printing press, together drastically...
dynasty Chinese artisan, engineer, and inventor of the world's first movabletype technology. Bi Sheng's system used fired clay tiles, one for each Chinese...
introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press. Though movabletype was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg invented...
Johannes Gutenberg independently invented movabletype in Europe, along with innovations in casting the type based on a matrix and hand mould. This invention...
which seals in the synovial fluid. They are the most common and most movabletype of joint in the body of a mammal. As with most other joints, synovial...
but are the means by which people are re-invented. The invention of movabletype was the decisive moment in the change from a culture in which all the...
Typography with movabletype was invented during the eleventh-century Song dynasty in China by Bi Sheng (990–1051). His movabletype system was manufactured...
concave mirror and that of the pinhole. Shen wrote extensively about movabletype printing invented by Bi Sheng (990–1051), and because of his written...
Moveable may refer to: A Moveable Feast Moveable feast Movabletype Moveable bridge History of printing in East Asia Personal property This disambiguation...
Sui is best known for creating China's first metal movabletype printing in 1490 AD. Metal movabletype printing had been invented in Korea during the earlier...
using woodblock movabletype printing during the 18th century. Although superseded by western printing techniques, woodblock movabletype printing remains...
A type case is a compartmentalized wooden box used to store movabletype used in letterpress printing. Modern, factory-produced movabletype was available...
Typesetting with movabletype was invented in China during the Song dynasty by Bi Sheng (990–1051). His system used ceramic materials; clay type printing continued...
However, commoner craftsmen such as Bi Sheng (972–1051), the inventor of movabletype printing (in a form predating the printing press of Johannes Gutenberg)...
Some weblog software, such as SilverStripe, WordPress, Drupal, and MovableType, supports automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article...
of a compass for navigation, the first to describe the invention of movabletype printing by contemporary artisan Bi Sheng, and the first in China to...
exonym "Korea", was highly cultured and created the world's first metal movabletype in 1234. During the 13th century, the Mongol Empire made Goryeo its vassal...