![]() ![]() This technique was transmitted to Europe by around 1400 and was used on paper for old master prints and playing cards. This technique then spread to Persia and Russia. Printing spread early to Korea and Japan, which also used Chinese logograms, but the technique was also used in Turpan and Vietnam using a number of other scripts. ![]() A skilled printer could print up to 2,000 double-page sheets per day. By the tenth century, 400,000 copies of some sutras and pictures were printed, and the Confucian classics were in print. The earliest examples of woodblock printing on paper appear in the mid-seventh century in China.īy the ninth century, printing on paper had taken off, and the first extant complete printed book containing its date is the Diamond Sutra ( British Library) of 868. ![]() They are of silk, printed with flowers in three colours from the Han Dynasty (before 220 A.D.). The earliest surviving woodblock printed fragments are from China. Main article: History of printing in East Asia ![]()
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