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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.

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Movable type

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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...

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Movable Type

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Movable Type is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart. It was publicly announced on September 3, 2001; version 1.0 was publicly...

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Type

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textual printing in the publishing industry Type can refer to a font style, e.g., "italic type" Movable type, in letterpress printing Sort (typesetting)...

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History of printing in East Asia

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book documented instructions on how to use the copper movable type. The use of metal movable type spread to Korea by the 13th century during the Goryeo...

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History of printing

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use of copper movable types was documented in a Song-era book from 1193, and the earliest printed paper money using movable metal type to print the identifying...

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Printing

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that century. Later developments in printing technology include the movable type invented by Bi Sheng around 1040 AD and the printing press invented by...

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Woodblock printing

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collection. About 4 percent of it was printed in movable type in 1773, but it was hand-carved movable wooden type. Indeed, the entire collection was only printed...

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Print design

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technologies such as movable type, the letterpress, and lithography. Chinese alchemist Pi Sheng invented the concept of movable type, circa 1045 CE. He...

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Relief printing

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page, unless the page is printed twice. Traditional text printing with movable type is also a relief technique. This meant that woodcuts were much easier...

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Song dynasty

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rapid expansion of woodblock printing and the 11th-century invention of movable type printing. Philosophers such as Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi reinvigorated Confucianism...

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Global spread of the printing press

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the printing press began with the invention of the printing press with movable type by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany c. 1439. Western printing technology...

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Printing press

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precise and rapid creation of metal movable type in large quantities. His two inventions, the hand mould and the movable-type printing press, together drastically...

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Bi Sheng

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dynasty Chinese artisan, engineer, and inventor of the world's first movable type technology. Bi Sheng's system used fired clay tiles, one for each Chinese...

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Johannes Gutenberg

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introduced letterpress printing to Europe with his movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg invented...

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Book

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Johannes Gutenberg independently invented movable type in Europe, along with innovations in casting the type based on a matrix and hand mould. This invention...

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Synovial joint

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which seals in the synovial fluid. They are the most common and most movable type of joint in the body of a mammal. As with most other joints, synovial...

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The Gutenberg Galaxy

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but are the means by which people are re-invented. The invention of movable type was the decisive moment in the change from a culture in which all the...

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Typography

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Typography with movable type was invented during the eleventh-century Song dynasty in China by Bi Sheng (990–1051). His movable type system was manufactured...

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Shen Kuo

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concave mirror and that of the pinhole. Shen wrote extensively about movable type printing invented by Bi Sheng (990–1051), and because of his written...

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Moveable

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Moveable may refer to: A Moveable Feast Moveable feast Movable type Moveable bridge History of printing in East Asia Personal property This disambiguation...

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Hua Sui

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Sui is best known for creating China's first metal movable type printing in 1490 AD. Metal movable type printing had been invented in Korea during the earlier...

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Four Great Inventions

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using woodblock movable type printing during the 18th century. Although superseded by western printing techniques, woodblock movable type printing remains...

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Type case

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A type case is a compartmentalized wooden box used to store movable type used in letterpress printing. Modern, factory-produced movable type was available...

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East Asian typography

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Typesetting with movable type was invented in China during the Song dynasty by Bi Sheng (990–1051). His system used ceramic materials; clay type printing continued...

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Science and technology of the Song dynasty

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However, commoner craftsmen such as Bi Sheng (972–1051), the inventor of movable type printing (in a form predating the printing press of Johannes Gutenberg)...

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Trackback

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Some weblog software, such as SilverStripe, WordPress, Drupal, and Movable Type, supports automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article...

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Dream Pool Essays

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of a compass for navigation, the first to describe the invention of movable type printing by contemporary artisan Bi Sheng, and the first in China to...

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Korea

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exonym "Korea", was highly cultured and created the world's first metal movable type in 1234. During the 13th century, the Mongol Empire made Goryeo its vassal...

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