Unique printing company publishes in 27 alphabets

At the E.J. Brill printing house in Leiden, books were printed in oriental languages. The letters are set mechanically with a mono-typewriter, which punches the letters into a roll of paper. This punching belt controls the letter frame of the casting machine, which casts the letters and arranges them in lines. Then the texts are printed. Hieroglyphic writing and Chinese characters can only be set …