Veteran printer’s mission to keep movable type tradition alive in Hong Kong

In a printing factory, an elderly man points out numerous errors he has circled in a book on the history of movable type, his voice edged with indignation. “Many historical accounts about the industry are wrong,” the 76-year-old says. “I want to tell the true story.” Leung Kwok-hung owns Sing Hung Printer, a movable type factory that has operated for more than 50 years. The business once employed 15 people but has relocated twice to smaller premises with fewer printing machines as the trade...