The production process of Jinling Scripture engraving and printing technology

The Jinling Scripture Engraving maintains the traditional woodcutting and watermarking techniques of the ancient Han Chinese people, which consists of three parts:

1, engraving, including writing samples, on the sample, carving and other processes;

2, printing, including the release of the plate, brushing the ink, re-paper, pressure rubbing, unveiling of the paper, and other processes;

3, binding, including pagination, page folding, summarizing Qiqi, binding compaction, counting the book, Qiqi columns, stringing the paper twist, pasting the front cover and back cover, matching the book, cutting the book, hitting the binding eye, posting the name of the book sign strip and other processes. The binding process includes page separation, folding, bunching, bundling and compaction, book counting, book columns, stringing paper twists, pasting the front and back covers, book matching, book cutting, hitting the binding eye, and posting the title of the book and other processes.

Jinling scripture woodcut watermarking technology, is an important position in the world of printing history of China's ancient engraved plate printing remains, traditionally for the master and disciple generations of oral transmission, has been passed on to the sixth and seventh generations. Jinling scripture carving office hand-printed Buddhist texts of more than 300 kinds, accounting for about one-fifth of the total number of scripture plates.