Print Technology

Buddhist Influences On Print Technology
... Buddhist influences on print technology in East Asia are far-reaching ... that influenced the creation of manuscript and print culture, but Buddhism had the largest influence in spreading the usage of print technology, which in turn led to an increase in the dissemination of secular printing ...

The Gutenberg Galaxy - Four Epochs of History - Gutenberg Galaxy - Movable Type
... Print culture, ushered in by the Gutenberg press in the middle of the fifteenth century, brought about the cultural predominance of the visual over the aural/oral ... Quoting with approval an observation on the nature of the printed word from Prints and Visual Communication by William Ivins, McLuhan remarks In this passage not only notes the ingraining of lineal ... The technology and social effects of typography incline us to abstain from noting interplay and, as it were, "formal" causality, both in our inner and external lives ...