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By the ninth century printing on paper had taken off, and the first extant complete printed book containing its date is the Diamond Sutra ( British Library ) of 868.

By the tenth century, 400, 000 copies of some sutras and pictures were printed and the Confucian classics were in print.

A skilled printer could print up to 2, 000 double-page sheets per day.