Editing Printing (section)

====In the Middle East====
Block printing, called ''[[tarsh]]'' in [[Arabic language|Arabic]], developed in [[History of Arab Egypt|Arabic Egypt]] during the ninth and tenth centuries, mostly for prayers and [[amulet]]s. There is some evidence to suggest that these print blocks were made from non-wood materials, possibly [[tin]], lead, or clay. The techniques employed are uncertain. Block printing later went out of use during the [[Timurid Renaissance]].<ref>Richard W. Bulliet (1987), "[http://www.ghazali.org/articles/jaos107-3-1987-rwb.pdf Medieval Arabic Tarsh: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Printing] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921204857/http://www.ghazali.org/articles/jaos107-3-1987-rwb.pdf |date=September 21, 2017 }}". ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'' '''107''' (3), pp. 427–38.</ref> The printing technique in Egypt was embraced by reproducing texts on paper strips and supplying them in different copies to meet the demand.<ref>See Geoffrey Roper, Muslim Printing Before Gutenberg and the references cited therein.</ref><ref name=bloom8>{{cite book |first=Jonathan |last=Bloom |year=2001 |title=Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World |url=https://archive.org/details/paperbeforeprint00bloo |url-access=limited |location=New Haven |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=0-300-08955-4 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/paperbeforeprint00bloo/page/n23 8]–10, 42–45}}</ref>