book printing
Making physical volumes
Book printing is the process of producing books by transferring text and images onto paper, traditionally through letterpress or offset methods, now often digital.
The term covers everything from typesetting to binding: The invention of movable type revolutionized book printing.
It may also refer to the industry or trade: She works in book printing.
- letterpressPrinting from raised surfaces
- movable typeReconfigurable printing components
- hot metalHeated metallic material
- composing stickHandheld typesetting tray
- incunabulaEarliest European printed books
colophon · title page · fine print · Gutenberg press · paper stock · printer · ink · typefaces · quarto · bookbinder · print run · publisher · lithography · typesetter · chase · galley proof · codices · first edition
- Early Printmovable type, broadsheets, broadsides, pamphlets, woodcuts
- printingletterpress, lithographers, press, typographers, print
- publishingpublishers, editors, editor, publishing house, books
- printing historyGutenberg, typographers, Gutenberg press, letterpress, Johannes Gutenberg
- letterpressletterpress, movable type, metal type, galley, composing stick
- printmakingprints, print, woodcuts, woodcut, lithography
book printingdigital distribution
Sending content via internet
digital publishing · electronic publishing · online publishing · web publishing · e-publishing
book printinghand copying
Duplicating by writing manually
calligraphy · handwriting · illumination · hand lettering · oral tradition
book printingoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
oral transmission · storytelling · spoken word · live performance · memorization