What are the advantages and disadvantages of block printing? What are the advantages and disadvantages of movable type printing?

In some methods, block printing is better than casting movable type printing. For example, if a language like Chinese has a large character set, block printing will be cheaper at the initial investment.

This craft also has more freedom of artistic painting, such as drawing and charting.

Disadvantages of block printing: trouble, time-consuming, low efficiency, small quantity, easy to copy mistakes and omissions, carefully stored block printing, occupying a large number of houses, and re-carving the whole page when typos are found, which contributes to the improvement of printing.

Advantages of movable type printing:

Movable type printing highlights two changes: changing dead type into movable type and changing dead version into movable type, which is economical, time-saving, labor-saving, material-saving and money-saving.

Disadvantages: careless typesetting can easily lead to typesetting errors and book errors.

Extended data:

China is the country where printing was invented. In modern times, western metal movable type printing was introduced into China, and the traditional printing industry was gradually replaced by industrialized modern printing. Traditional printing technology gradually faded out of people's field of vision and entered the depths of history.

For a long time, on the one hand, we are proud that printing is one of the "four great inventions"; On the other hand, in modern times, it was ruthlessly replaced by printing technology from the west and labeled as backward. Here, movable type printing is endowed with modernity, while block printing becomes a primitive and backward representative.

If the contrast between block printing and movable type printing makes you feel simplified, let's review their history and start a journey to discover the beauty of block printing.

It is generally believed that block printing was invented by China in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Hundreds of years later, during the Northern Song Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty (104 1- 1048), Bi Sheng invented clay movable type printing. Shen Kuo, a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, recorded this event in the famous scientific note Meng Qian Bi Tan, which was the earliest recorded movable type printing method.

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