The Glory of Chinese Printing

    Make types with clay

 Carve reverse characters on
 types

    Firing to harden types
  Prepare iron plate and
  iron holder


  Store movable types by
  the systems
 Spread some mixtures on the
 surface of the iron plate



 Place the characters in
 the iron holder

 Level the characters by heat

Printing

 

Bi Shen's Printing technology

 

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