In the past 20th century, the world's printing technology has achieved rapid development and leap forward. The laser photocopying and offset printing technology has made printing an ancient technology that originated in China and made the Chinese people proud. Today, at the beginning of the century, the grand event of the world printing industry was held in China, and all major printing companies in the world were well-prepared. While fully understanding the world's most advanced printing technologies, we should also have a clear understanding and insight into the development trends and opportunities of printing technology.
1. Digital workflow will dominate all areas of printing technology 1. Digital processing and networked information transfer will be rapidly developed (1) Full digital process flow will replace analog image and page processing systems, enabling high-precision, digital color Image acquisition, processing, graphic composition, proofing, output transmission, and even non-film direct plate making are dominant. Gradually realize the multimedia output of the page file. The system equipments for pre-press processing are developed toward integration, specialization, and diversification, and the supporting application software is being developed to open, cross-platform, intelligent, and file formats.
(2) On the other hand, the application of new technologies blurs the boundaries of the original division of labor, while mergers and reorganizations make the prepress business more concentrated. At the same time, the personalization of printing needs and the requirements for design innovation are even higher. There is a clear trend of division of labor in the design, production, printing, and printing of the printing industry. In other words, the printing industry in the future will surely have an obvious polarization: one side is a small group of large companies, the other side is a large number of small businesses, and medium-sized companies are minimal;
(3) The implementation of digital process flow is an inevitable trend in the development of the printing industry. With the development of perfect technology such as dot-copy scanning technology, digital proofing, computer-to-platemaking and digital process flow, the factors that hinder the promotion of digital technology have gradually disappeared. Advanced output technology and intelligent workflow management make digital printing more efficient.
2. The problems that need to be solved in the overall popularization of digital workflow:
(1) High-precision, high-performance digital cameras and color scanners, intelligent color calibration software must be universally applied;
(2) Promote the use of direct platesetters and digital proofing technologies;
(3) Strengthen application software, especially the promotion and application of intelligent software that can increase the degree of automation and production efficiency;
(4) High compression rate data transmission, multi-media recording output, and all international new file formats and standardized data processing and transmission technologies can be rapidly popularized and applied;
(5) For Chinese processing systems, the development and unification of Chinese character fonts must also be strengthened.
Second, prepress technology - especially direct plate making technology is the main force and focus of the printing technology development in the next decade 1. The latest development trend of the prepress industry (1) in the prepress industry in the 21st century, the dominant position will not be In the traditional platemaking process of the photo-film-PS version, the current direct plate-making technology has already begun a large-scale popularization stage from a small number of printing plants. The sales of computer-to-plate platesetters and related products, such as COPYDOT film scanners, have continued to increase substantially. ;(To be continued)