Movable type printing
Original text
In Qingli, there is a commoner Bi Sheng, and it is also a movable type. The method is to use clay to carve words, which are as thin as the lips of money. Each word is a seal, and the fire will make it strong. First, set up an iron plate, and put rosin wax, paper ash, etc. on it. If you want to make a seal, place an iron mold on an iron plate, and the seal will be densely covered with characters. The iron fan is made of a board, hold it against the fire, and when the medicine is slightly boiled, press a flat board on its surface, and the characters will be as flat as a hammer. If you print only three or two copies, it is not easy; if you print hundreds, hundreds, or thousands of copies, it is extremely fast. Two iron plates are often used, one for printing and the other for self-printing. After this seal is completed, the second plate is already in place. It can be used more interchangeably in an instant. Each character has a number of prints, such as Ruzhi, Ye, etc. Each character has more than twenty prints to prepare for duplication in one board. If not in use, stick it with paper, one for each rhyme, and store it in a wooden grid. If there are strange characters that are unprepared, they can be carved with a twist and burned with grass and fire, and they can be completed in an instant. If it is not made of wood, the wood structure will be dense and uneven, and it will be uneven when exposed to water, and it will also stick to the medicine, which is not advisable. It is not like burning the soil. After using it, use the fire to melt the medicine, then brush it with your hand, and the seal will fall off without staining. Let me help him answer it. Picture symbol number typesetting map You can also enter 9999 characters
Translation
During the Qingli period, a commoner named Bi Sheng invented the movable type plate. Its method is: use clay to carve characters, the character mold is as thin as the edge of a copper coin, carve a character mold for each character, and use fire to make it hard. First set up an iron plate and cover it with rosin, wax mixed with paper dust. If you want to print, take an iron frame and put it on the iron plate, then densely arrange the characters in the iron frame. Once the iron frame is full, it will become a printing plate. Put it on the fire to bake; After the medicine is slightly melted, take a flat plate and press it on top of the font, then all the fonts arranged on the board will be as flat as a whetstone. If you only print three or two copies, it cannot be considered simple; if you print dozens or even hundreds or thousands of copies, it is extremely fast (very fast). When printing, two iron plates are usually made. One plate is being printed, and the other plate is already in the typesetting mold. This one has just finished printing, and the second plate is ready. The two plates are used alternately, (very) It can be completed in a very short time. Each character has several character models (molds), such as "Zhi", "Ye" and other characters. Each character has more than twenty character models (molds), which are used to prepare (prevent) duplication in the same edition. word. When not in use, mark them with paper strips (use paper strips as labels to classify them), classify them according to the rhyme part of the word, make a label for each rhyme part, and store them in wooden grids. When you encounter a rare character that you have not prepared for at ordinary times (if there is a rare character that you have not prepared for at ordinary times), carve it out immediately and grill it over a grass fire, and it will be carved successfully in no time. The reason why wood is not used to make movable type molds is because the texture of wood can be loose or fine, and it will become uneven when exposed to water. It will also stick to the medicine and cannot be removed when the board is dismantled. It is not like firing with clay. After using the character molds, bake them with fire to melt the medicine. Then wipe it gently with your hands, and the character molds will fall off by themselves without being stained by the medicine at all.