11/2/2005: Traditional Korean printer

aliasyzy · 05-16-2006, 08:40 AM

I think who invented moveable type earlier is no big deal. It's natural to consider moveable type when people want to be more effcient.
The moveable type has been invented and developed in China since 10th century, but the whole block method was still widely used for a very long period. I don't know why, but this means the moveable type method that time had soft spots in some aspects. So, I think Gutenberg's invention is more important, for the idea of moveable type was put in practice perfectly since then.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-24-2006, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by aliasyzy

I think who invented moveable type earlier is no big deal. It's natural to consider moveable type when people want to be more effcient.
The moveable type has been invented and developed in China since 10th century, but the whole block method was still widely used for a very long period. I don't know why, but this means the movable type method that time had soft spots in some aspects. So, I think Gutenberg's invention is more important, for the idea of movable type was put in practice perfectly since then.

As I understand it, individual letters and words were used to print for a while. What Gutenberg did was make type that was all the same height, to produce a printed uniform page, repeatedly.

kyrasantae · 08-01-2006, 12:45 AM

For the record, the text in the carving is the first two pages of the 1446 work "Hunmin Jeong-eum Haerye" (Explanations and Examples of the Proper Sounds for the Education of the People), one of the texts which explained how the new (at the time) Hangul alphabet worked. Since Chinese characters (hanja) were used before Hangul was invented, the text is primarily written that way.

(More info)
You can see the orignal pages here. It looks like the print on the block was printed from these images

xoxoxoBruce · 08-01-2006, 07:06 AM

Hey thanks, kyrasantae. Welcome to the Cellar.

Since it was a demonstration/show piece for a German Book Fair (I think*), it would follow that they would use a historical document to copy.

*It also makes sense that the link is in German.

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05-16-2006, 08:40 AM	#1
aliasyzy Soylent Greenhorn Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 25	I think who invented moveable type earlier is no big deal. It's natural to consider moveable type when people want to be more effcient. The moveable type has been invented and developed in China since 10th century, but the whole block method was still widely used for a very long period. I don't know why, but this means the moveable type method that time had soft spots in some aspects. So, I think Gutenberg's invention is more important, for the idea of moveable type was put in practice perfectly since then.

08-01-2006, 12:45 AM	#3
kyrasantae Kinda New Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1	For the record, the text in the carving is the first two pages of the 1446 work "Hunmin Jeong-eum Haerye" (Explanations and Examples of the Proper Sounds for the Education of the People), one of the texts which explained how the new (at the time) Hangul alphabet worked. Since Chinese characters (hanja) were used before Hangul was invented, the text is primarily written that way. (More info) You can see the orignal pages here. It looks like the print on the block was printed from these images

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