Explore: Printing Blocks (printing Surfaces)

Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in

linoleum blocks, which can be used alongside metal type; wood type in a single operation; stereotypes; and electrotypes of type and blocks. With certain

variety of surfaces, such as flat, cylindrical, spherical, compound angles, textures, concave, or convex surfaces. While crude forms of pad printing have existed

of block printing. Although the surface and inscriptions of most seals were small or limited, some wooden seals were as large as printing blocks and

as a method of printing on textiles and later on paper. The earliest examples of ink-squeeze rubbings and potential stone printing blocks appear in the

printed from blocks. In the Kamakura period from the 12th century to the 13th century, many books were printed and published by woodblock printing at Buddhist

plaster mould taken from the surface of a forme of type. The mould was known as a flong. In the days of set movable type, printing involved placing individual

encased in blocks of type and used on clay moulds for casting bronzes. By the end of the 3rd century BCE, seals were also used for printing on pottery

printing, wooden blocks, stencils, engraved plates, rollers, or silkscreens can be used to place colours on the fabric. Colourants used in printing contain

Lenticular printing is a technology in which lenticular lenses (a technology also used for 3D displays) are used to produce printed images with an illusion