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printing

Process for reproducing text and images using a master form or template

Also known as machine printing

Instance of: activity
, industry
, service
Subclass of: printing technique

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Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The earliest known form of printing evolved from ink rubbings made on paper or cloth from texts on stone tablets, used during the sixth century. Printing by pressing an inked image onto paper appeared later that century. Later developments in printing technology include the movable type invented by Bi Sheng around 1040 and the printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century. The technology of printing played a key role in the development of the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.

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Uses: printing machine
Product or material produced: printed matter
Practiced by: printer
pressman
book printer
Industry: poligraphy
Said to be the same as: Q10353573
Main Wikidata property: printed by
Used by: Protestant Reformation

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