Their family textile-dyeing-and-printing trade, handed down for generations, uses natural vegetable dyes and wooden hand blocks for printing.

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That pays for the high-tech printing, hand-binding and a presentation box that's covered in goatskin and linen.

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Instead of painting their portraits by hand, he adapted a technique from commercial printing, in which a photographic image could be transferred to canvas by pushing paint through a mechanically-produced silkscreen template.

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Indeed, after the advent of printing, illuminated manuscripts increased their cachet as hand-made luxury items for the elite.

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Although rare now, hand-crafted Bibles were common before the invention of the printing press.

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On the other hand, shortly before our show starts, Gutenberg invented the printing press.

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On the other hand speculators seem to feel that the US Federal Reserve could also reengage the printing presses which would likely negate even the boldest move by the Japanese.

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