Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. image-making equipment
8. [equipment for printing and printmaking]
9. type composition equipment
10. type (composition equipment)

Anotations

Scope note:

Type cast as individual, single-character units, capable of being combined into text, printed, and redistributed and reused. Use especially with regard to its invention, in Europe in the late 15th century and earlier in China and Korea, and in contrast to printing numerous characters and sometimes images from one block.