In which three countries did the technology of printing first come?

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China, Japan, Korea is correct answer. Key Points

The first printing technology was created in China, Japan, and Korea. Woodblock printing was popular in China.
Until the sixth century, print was only employed by scholars and authorities, but it eventually became widespread.
Hand printing technology was introduced to Japan by Buddhist missionaries from China.

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The proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations utilized cylinder seals to validate documents inscribed on clay tablets as early as 3000 BCE, which is when printing began.
Block seals, hammered coins, pottery imprints, and fabric printing were among early forms.
When goldsmith and inventor Johannes Gutenberg began experimenting with printing in Strasbourg, France in 1440, he was a political exile from Mainz, Germany.
He returned to Mainz some years later, and by 1450, he had completed and was ready to sell his printing machine: the Gutenberg press.