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Movable Type Printing E-Book

Title: Movable Type Printing: Lead Molded Types
This book, with eight units in all, provides a lively narrative for movable type printing.
This book covers the characteristics of movable type printing, its printing process, and the printing industry’s evolution in Taiwan.

Animation, video, games and other multimedia content are integrated in this book.

Includes documentary episodes featuring the first interview with the second generation of the “Fenghang Type Foundry,” who were the pioneers of regular-script Chinese character types in Taiwan.

This e-book provides an understanding of lead types, multigraph press,paper matrix, and other items in the Museum of Science and Technology’s printing-related collection which are seldom seen nowadays.

EPUB Readers for Windows Computer：
Google Chrome- Readium
FireFox- EPUBReader

EPUB Readers for Mobile：
Android- Gitden Reader
iOS- iBooks

》NOTICE《 To display the videos in the file, please download the PDF documents to your machine and then run the PDF reading application to open and read the document.

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