While johann gutenberg is credited with inventing movable type, the roots of printing come from traditions?

While johann gutenberg is credited with inventing movable type, the roots of printing come from far east traditions

Explanation:

    We don't always remember that the press is not started with Gutenberg: in the far east, the inventions of paper, blocks printing and movable types were important steps from another story of printing and books.

    A story that doesn't only started centuries before Gutenberg as still goes on. In craft workshops, all over China still produce today a few million woodcuts per year: New Year's prints (nianhua), amulets (fu) and papers to burn to the gods and to the dead (zhima).

jan tschichold, the son of a designer and sign painter