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How did hand printing gradually sift to mechanical printing??

Answer 1

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The wood block printing was much faster than hand printing. The main reasons favoring shift from hand printing to mechanical printing in China are the following: ... Printing in the 17th century China was no longer limited to the scholar or the officials, but it was also used by merchants, to print their daily entries.

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Answer 2

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The reasons favouring shift from hand printing to mechanical printing in China are: (i) Textbooks of Civil Service Examination were printed in vast numbers under the sponsorship of the imperial state. ... (ii) By the seventeenth century, print was no longer used just by scholar officials.