Printing originated in China, originated from the unique seal culture of Chinese, it is from the stone and stamping two methods gradually developed and synthesized, is after a long time, accumulated the experience of many people, is the crystallization of human wisdom.
The earliest existing documents and the earliest Chinese engravings were printed in the 600 A.D., the early Tang Dynasty.
In the 7th century, engraving printing appeared in the early Tang Dynasty. Song Ren Zongqing calendar year (1041-1049), BiSheng invented the plastic mud type printing.
This is the world's earliest living type printing.
From 1241 to 1250, Yang Gu was a conspirator of Kublai Yao's book, Yao Zhong, who printed Zhu Qi's Primary School, The Book of Recent Thoughts and Lu Zuqian's "The History Collection" and other books spread the Quartet. Yuan Dynasty scientist Wang Wei (1260-1330) invented the wood living version (there was also support for the Song Dynasty there is a wood living typebook, and put forward several versions to prove it. One of the most frequently mentioned is the "Mao Poem" known as the song book.
As the book's "Tangfeng Shan has the center" in a version of the "self" word line, can be completely proved to be a living version. Wang Wei in the "farm book" described the wooden living words: "Now there is a clever way to make a plate wood printing helmet, cutting bamboo pieces for the line, carved wood for the word, with a small small saw open, each word, with a knife on all sides, than the test size, high and low together." Then type and cut into a bamboo clip. The helmet is full, with the wooden swastomy, so that the solid word is not moving. Then brush it with ink.


Wang Wei printed 100 of the 60,000-word "Jude County Zhi" in 1299 with wood-based acters. Early records of Chinese metal acters, seen in the Yuan Dynasty scientist Wang Wei (1260-1330) in "Making Living Word Printing Calligraphy" (1298): "Recent lying tin as words, with iron bars, line, embedded in the helmet, boundline printing books, but the above words, it is difficult to make ink, the rate of bad, so can not be long line."
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Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) has two-color red, black-printed books.
Yuan Yingzong to rule two years (1322), Zhejiang Fenghua County, Yuma said De, with 100,000 wood live words, printing "University" 43 volumes and twenty volumes.
The printed materials printed in the Ming Dynasty with wood live acters included "The Wall Water Group English To Ask the Yuan", "Four Friends Jai Cong", "Zizi Chunqiu", "Little Word Record", "Yucheng Set" and so on.
During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), two-color, four-color overprints appeared, and multi-level color prints were printed. In the dle of the 15th century, John Gutenberg (1397-1468) began studying the printing of live acters in 1436, making a spiral hand-paneled wooden printing machine in 1440, and setting up a factory printing machine in 1445.
It was not until 1477 that it spread almost all over Europe and became popular in Europe, becoming the origin of modern printing. In 1589, the Western lead type and printing press was introduced to China, and the Chinese publishing industry began to publish books in lead-type printing. In 1590, the earliest books were printed in Western living acters- the Japanese Envoy to Rome (Latin), and in 1819 the "New and New Covenant Bible" (Chinese acters) printed with the lead living acters, in 1838 the Englishman Taiol made a set of Chinese lead acters in Singapore,
In 1842, he was reported to Hong Kong in 1844, the American Gu Xuan set up a Huahua Bible study in Macao, using the lead word of Taiol to operate the lead printing business. Qing Shizong Zheng eleven years (1733) Zheng Zheng ordered wood carving live words. 253,500 woodcut acters, completed in a year, printed 2,300 volumes of Wuying Temple Juzhen Edition Series. In his book", Wu Ying Temple Juzhen Program, Kim Jane onicles the process of making wood living acters. 1845.
Germany produced the first fast press. In 1860, the United States produced the first rounds of transit.
Later Germany has produced a two-color fast printing press, printing newspapers with the wheel of the turn, as well as two-color wheel turning, to 1900 and made a six-color wheel turn.
From 1845 onwards, after about a century, the industrial developed ries have achieved the mechanization of the printing industry. In 1859, the Meihua Library moved to Shanghai, in the same year by the museum technician American Jiang Beli improved the Chinese acter specifications, set 37 standards, laid the foundation of the Chinese lead acter system. He also d electroplating acter molds and invented the Meta-Treasure-style platoon. He also divided Chinese lead acters into common, spare and rare three categories, each of which is arranged in the "Kangxi Dictionary" of the first check-in method. Increased production efficiency of lead-printed books. Since then, China began to set up a living printing agency, printing industry gradually embarked on the path of mechanization. At the same time, Western stone printing has also been introduced to China and has been quite developed.


The end of the concave printing period also began to be used in China, the form of book products also changed - hardcover and paperback began to appear.