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Printing Films: an archive of industrial films about printing, typography, & journalism. Including ‘Farewell etaoin shrdlu’, about the last night of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times.

(Via @boldmonday on Twitter)
- Printing Films Archive A website dedicated to preserving the visual history of the printed word
Noted by Damian Cugley 2 years, 1 month ago.
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- library
- printing
- retro
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The oldest extant book printed with movable type is the Jikji, a collection of Buddhist teachings printed in Korea in 1377 CE. The practice of movable type in China and Korea probably predates it by a couple of centuries, but no examples survive.

(Via Open Culture on Twitter)
- The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 4 months ago.
- Incunabula on Twitter This is the Bois Protat, dated to 1370 - not just the oldest surviving woodblock from France but from all Europe, and even more remarkable because it has a textual element. This is - by far - the oldest surviving confirmed evidence we have of the printing of any "text" in Europe.… https://t.co/mw5Wgx4Yl2
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 11 months ago.
- printing