How much did it cost to print a book in ancient times? Both the Song Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were more than 1.7 million yuan.
I don't know where you got this data. If the cost of movable type printing in the Song and Qing Dynasties was so huge, then in the era before the invention of movable type printing, China's printed matter used block printing technology. If we count the loss of labor, materials and waste materials, the cost should be even higher.