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Woodblock printing is basically creating a stamp for the page that you want and then stamping it on cloth.
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However, it is not widely used due to the massive amount of Chinese characters.
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This type system faces the same problems that Bi Sheng's did.
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It is mainly used for religious purposes.
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The Printing Press spreads quickly across Europe, eventually leading to the Renaissance. Gutenberg also invents a type of oil- based ink that is more durable than previous water-based inks.
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Lithography uses water and oil or wax to print an image on a smooth surface. Most mass-produced printed items (newspapers, book, etc.) are now printed using Lithography.
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Chromolithography is a technique that utilizes several lithography prints of different colors to create a colored image.
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The Hansen Writing Ball had its keys mounted on a large hemisphere, making it look like a ball.
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Flexography is a technique now used mainly for printing food labels.
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Carlson was arthritic, and found manually copying documents to be painful, so he invented a machine to copy them for him.
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It is said to have taken up an entire room.
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Dot matrix printers print using a grid of small dots to create images. Due to their combination of versitality and affordability, these were the most common personal printer up to the 1990s.
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The HP LaserJet 8ppm used a Canon engine controlled by HP software.
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Before this, printing had been done on cloth instead of paper.
