Now there is only woodblock printing.

So that movable type printing has not yet appeared?

No wonder books are so expensive, and most of them are handwritten.

Lin Xianyu pondered for a while, she didn't have any hobby of being an inventor, but this movable type printing technique was really convenient.

In particular, her school requires a lot of textbooks, which are different from other books.

It requires a large number of relatively simple ones, and it may be necessary to find someone to write them in the future, and it is too troublesome to have no movable type printing.

"Mother, is this engraving printing technique just to engrave the content of a page on the engraving plate and print?" Lin Xianyu asked.

"That's right." Mrs. Lin didn't know why Lin Xianyu was interested in this engraving printing, but she still told Lin Xianyu in detail what the engraving printing technology looked like.

Engraving printing is on a smooth wooden board of a certain thickness, pasted on the copy of the neat manuscript, the thin and almost transparent manuscript paper front and the wooden board are attached, the characters become the reverse body, the strokes are clear and legible.

The engraver uses a carving knife to cut off the part of the layout without handwriting, which becomes the yang script with the font convex, which is completely different from the stele yin script with the font recessed.

When printing, ink is applied to the raised font, and then the paper is covered on top of it, and the back of the paper is gently wiped so that the handwriting is left on the paper.

If so, is it easy to make typos? And these engravings also take up a lot of space, after all, you need one engraving for each page. ”

Lin Xianyu opened her mouth and said, she didn't expect that this engraving printing technology was so backward, no wonder there was engraving printing, and most of the books were still manuscripts.

"That's true, so basically except for the Four Books and Five Classics, there are very few engravings to print, after all, engraving is not easy to make, and it is very troublesome to preserve."

"But if Xianyu wants a contract for engraving printing, there is naturally no problem." Mrs. Lin spoke.

"Mother, I mean, we can improve this printing technique." Lin Xianyu opened his mouth and said.

Although Lin Xianyu didn't know how the specific movable type printing technique came about, Lin Xianyu just knew the general principle.

"Improvements?" Mrs. Lin was no longer surprised by her daughter's occasional whimsy.

But I still feel very interested in hearing that Lin Xianyu wants to improve this printing technique, you must know that this printing technique is related to the important matter of readers.

But everything related to the reader belongs to the elegant thing, and it is also a thing that benefits the future.

"Yes, we can engrave the words one by one, and when we need them, we can just put them together and print them together."

Lin Xianyu opened his mouth and briefly said that the movable type printing technique was far away.

Mrs. Lin's eyes lit up as she listened, and the benefits of doing so were obvious.

Movable type plate making just avoids the lack of engraving, as long as enough single movable type is prepared in advance, it can be imposed at any time, which greatly accelerates the plate making time.

After the movable type plate is printed, it can be disassembled, the movable type can be reused, and the movable type occupies less space than the engraving plate, which is easy to store and keep.

"That's a really good idea, let's get our workshop to experiment!"

Mrs. Lin is a resolute person and said decisively.

"And this thing, once it is successfully developed, then the price of books will drop greatly, which is a great thing for all readers in the world."

Mrs. Lin didn't expect Lin Xianyu to be able to give herself such a surprise.