Taş Üstüne Yazı Yazmak: Osmanlı’da Matbaa Hattatlığı (1831-1928).

This article aims to explore the history of scribes in the printing world. Scribes of printers were first needed with the using of lithography in the Ottoman World and by the time they became an actor of printing and publishing world. Printing clerks were first needed in the Ottoman world with the use of lithography, and in time they became an actor in the world of printing and publishing. Although they initially wrote books for lithographic printers, as new printing techniques develop, they wrote not only books but also business cards, invitations, company invoices, etc. Scribes of printers entered the market as freelance workers, then took permanent positions in printers and in the 20th century they opened calligraphy stores for printers but their story ended with language reform in 1928. It is emphasized that the development of printing capitalism after 1908 and that scribes became important actors in the new market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]