What's the point of printing?

1. The invention and use of printing had a great influence on European thought and society, which not only promoted the religious reform and Renaissance, but also contributed to the establishment of many European national languages and literature.

2. Movable type printing in China was subsequently spread to Japan, Central Asia and other regions, which promoted cultural exchange and dissemination.

Printing has promoted the popularization of education and knowledge. Cheap books enable more people to acquire knowledge, thus affecting their outlook on life and world. The popularization of books will improve people's literacy rate, and then expand the demand for books.

The far-reaching significance of printing;

The mass production of printed books increases the chances of book preservation and reduces the possibility of handwritten books dying out due to limited collection. Due to the wide spread of printed books and the increase in the number of readers, the church's monopoly on academics in the past has been challenged by secular people.

The priority of religious works is gradually replaced by humanist works, and readers have a better understanding of the differences and contradictions in ancient books, thus weakening their confidence in traditional sayings and laying the foundation for the development of new knowledge.

Printing makes the version unified, which is obviously different from the inevitable mistakes in the manuscript. Printing itself does not guarantee the correctness of the text, but proofreading before printing and errata after printing make the printed copy more perfect.

Through the pre-editing of printers, the form of books is becoming more and more unified, rather than the previous manual copy of their own interests. All these make readers develop a systematic way of thinking and promote the formation of organizational structures of various disciplines.