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Woodblock Printing

Woodblock printing was an early technique used in East Asia to print on textiles and paper from 200 AD onward. Movable type printing using individual metal letters was developed in 1040 and allowed more reproducible printing. Lithography, invented in 1796, uses chemical processes to create images on a smooth surface for printing.

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Woodblock Printing

Woodblock printing was an early technique used in East Asia to print on textiles and paper from 200 AD onward. Movable type printing using individual metal letters was developed in 1040 and allowed more reproducible printing. Lithography, invented in 1796, uses chemical processes to create images on a smooth surface for printing.

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Woodblock printing (200 AD)

Block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East
Asia both as a method of printing on textiles and later, under the influence of Buddhism, on paper

Stencil
Stencils may have been used to colour cloth for a very long time; the technique probably reached
its peak of sophistication in Katazome and other techniques used on silks for clothes during
the Edo period in Japan.

Movable type (1040)


Movable type is the system of printing and typography using movable pieces of metal type, made
by casting from matrices struck by letter punches.

Intaglio
Intaglio is a family of printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface, known
as the matrix or plate. Normally, copper or zinc plates are used as a surface, and the incisions
are created by etching, engraving, dry point, aquatinter mezzotint.

Lithography (1796)
Invented by Bavarian author Aloys Senefelderin 1796 lithography is a method for printing on a
smooth surface. Lithography is a printing process that uses chemical processes to create an
image. For instance, the positive part of an image would be a hydrophobic chemical, while the
negative image would be water.

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