Analysis:
Publishing means carving. "Selected Works" Ban Gu "Feng Yanran Mountain Inscription": "Then the mountain will be harvested and the stone will be published, and the inscription will be prosperous." In ancient times, engraving handwriting on stones was called printing. Carving handwriting on woodcuts is also called carving.
China's ancient books were carved on wooden blocks by hand, then painted with ink and printed on paper. So this method of printing books is called block printing, also called block printing. Books printed in this way are called printed books and engraved books. Printing and distributing books in this way is called printing. Although Bi Sheng had invented the method of typesetting and printing books with clay type in Song Dynasty, block printing was still the most basic method of printing books in China until the end of Qing Dynasty.
In modern times, people learn from the west, arrange movable types into templates and then print them into books, which is called typesetting or printing. Nowadays, computer typesetting textbooks are different from printed ones.