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Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing.
Block printing came to Christian Europe as a method for printing on cloth, where it was common by 1300. Images printed on cloth for religious purposes could be quite large and elaborate, and when paper became relatively easily available, around 1400, the medium transferred very quickly to small woodcut religious images and playing cards printed on paper. These prints were produced in very large numbers from about 1425 onwards.
Around the mid-century, block-books, woodcut books with both text and images, usually carved in the same block, emerged as a cheaper alternative to manuscripts and books printed with movable type. These were all short heavily illustrated works, the bestsellers of the day, repeated in many different block-book versions: the Ars...
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- Commercial Lithographic Printing
- Commercial Gravure Printing
- Commercial Flexographic Printing
- Commercial Screen Printing
- Quick Printing
- Digital Printing
- Manifold Business Forms Printing
- Books Printing
- Blankbook, Looseleaf Binders, and Devices Manufacturing
- Other Commercial Printing
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