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印刷史觀—試為印刷定位定調定論 ( 附英譯 ) products. The essence of the print products doesn't differ from the substrate, the content, or the purpose of use. Printing substrate isn't limited neither to the paper, nor to the readable content. The earliest print was to reproduce a simple drawing on the surface of cloth, silk, mud, wood, and pottery Later on, the developments of the printing technologies were used to print simple character. After though a thousand year, it was tumed maturely to be used to print on paper, then became a book. 3. It is misplacement to present book printing history for the printing history. The result has led the printing history that was too compressed to its functionality, or was too limited to a certain period of time, or was too narrow to the extent of the printing technology. The perspective of the book printing history is a traditional view of the printing history. 4. The book printing history is not the complete printing history. It should be categorized as a painting culture history. The characteristic of the printing history is a history of craftsmanship. From the craftsmanship's point of view, the extent, manifestation and diachronic of the printing history is broader than the book printing history. It is called the perspective of the macro printing history. 5. The book of "The General History of Chinese Printing" is written, which based on the perspective of the macro-printing history. The structure of the book covers the whole Chinese history of the evolvement of printing technology, across six thousand years. It is comprised all the Chinese encharial people and regions, and including all the printing forms and substrates. 6. The perspective of the macro-printing history has triggered of the movement of the printing history research which is relieved from the existed and restricted perspective of the book printing history. It has uncovered the truth that the printing history originated. from the craftsmanship. Indeed, it does clarify the uncertainty to better the development of the printing industry and to defend the authorship of the invention of the printing technology as well. (3) To conclude the invention of printing technology - a collaborative work which isn't invented by one person at the c c e er r t t a a i i n n t t i i m me e . . 1. The invention is defined as a creation of nonexistence or the acquisition of unknown theory by human beings' spiritual intelligence. 2. The earliest print is the engraving. The study of the invention of printing technology is to investigate the origin of the engraving. 3. Since the Sung Dynasty, the book historians proposed varied points of view to indicate that the invention of the engraving technology was either (a) in the East Han Dynasty, or (b) in the period of six dynasties, or (c) in the Sui Dynasty, or (d) at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, or() in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, or (1) at the end of Tang Dynasty, or (g) at the Dark Age, or (h) in the Sung Dynasty etc. All the hypotheses were based on the evidence of the existed books. 4. The origin of the river looks like a broom. The springs converge on the crocks, then on the river. The Yangtze River starts from Yizhang But, the upper stream of the Yangtze River is called the Golden Sand River. The upper stream of the Golden Sand River is called the Going to the Haven River. The upper stream of the Going to the Haven River is called the Two Two River. The upper stream of the Tuo Too 83