Printing is not only a technology, but also a culture

What does ancient printing have to do with us?

"Printing is ancient, do I still need to print? What does printing have to do with me?"

In fact, printing has long been integrated into various fields of society, and our daily life is inseparable. In addition to the common printed products of books, ID cards, banknotes, household registration books, signs on clothes, etc., contain printing elements, in fact, we are "using without knowing, using without noticing". More importantly, printing as the mother of civilization, so that knowledge and culture have a wide spread of the objective basis, as modern people should remember and thank the ancient printing to bring us benefits.

Printing allows us to speak to people who lived thousands of years ago

For the whole world, our modern publishing is more than one hundred years, but in the face of fourteen hundred years of printing history, it is as short as a moment. The book "Spring and Autumn Classics" is a Hangzhou engraving of the Southern Song Dynasty, also known as Zhejiang engraving. This is an ancient book from nearly a thousand years ago.

The Chinese say that paper lives a thousand years, from this book has been verified, we say that ink incense, from this book to get the experience. If we can read it, that means we can talk to thousands of people.

Printing is not only a technology, but also a culture

To draw the eye to a thousand years ago, the printing is the Chinese engraving, which was produced in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties. The ancients were very clever and carved a sentence, a paragraph or a small article on a plate, thus starting the process of block printing, which not only made an important contribution to the Chinese civilization, but also to the progress of human civilization.

However, block printing is easy to split the stroke accidentally engraved wrong, then how to do? So the craftsman cut out a word, cut a piece of wood and put it in. But it is certainly not a perfect work, in the process of use, there may be a variety of situations. Germany's Gutenberg, inspired by the printing of Chinese movable type, invented type printing, and later promoted the development of large-scale industrialization of machines, thus promoting modern publishing and printing.

China's printing technology from block, movable type printing, to the second revolution of printing Chinese character laser typesetting technology, and now the emerging industry of 3D printing technology, through the efforts of generations of people and the spirit of innovation, so that printing continues to improve and breakthrough.

However, can the road to printing only be seen as a technological leap forward? In fact, printing culture is not only a technology, but also a culture, a spirit, a practical value.

Our understanding of printing should not stay in its practical value, but also to see that it has greatly promoted the progress of human culture and the whole society, to see its long history, and to make an important contribution to the inheritance of civilization.

Print, the future can wait.

Is there a future for printing? Yes, I have!

For example, mobile phone, it is very convenient to hold it now, but, I know my wife often forgets it, she says it is very troublesome. Now the wearable device is coming, the wearable device is also in the hand, there is no further, there is already such a product, is a small piece of paper, or a projection, is curved, no matter how it is presented, it must have a circuit behind it, in fact, is circuit printing. At the time of printing, the circuits arranged inside are printed and communicated, which is convenient for our life. And nano-printing. Moreover, the current 3D printing, it is said that it has appeared that you can print buildings, print aircraft, print car parts, and some will use bioprinting in the future, according to the characteristics of the mouth, through the computer model, customized a small part placed in the mouth, foreign body sensation, discomfort will be greatly reduced. So in the future, personalized, ordinary work can not be done, will be achieved with 3D printing.

Printing is both ancient and modern. It is not only China's, but also the world's, is the whole mankind. We should remember it, understand it and give it new connotation, and better inherit the printing culture.

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Zhongshan No. 8 Hurricane Investment Holding Group (referred to as: Hurricane Group) is a comprehensive high-tech enterprise integrating R&D, manufacturing, sales and service, headquartered in the important location of China's Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province.

In the era of "Internet +", Hurricane Group has successfully implemented a new sharing model of "manufacturing + channel + technology + Internet". The group has a nationwide green intelligent manufacturing base, a national professional self-operated e-commerce platform for printing equipment (hurricanet.com) and more than 170 offline entity service subsidiaries and sub-sites. And derived Zhibee logistics, Hedao Technology, Hurricane College, online testing center, Hurricane High-tech Institute, scientific research workstation and other entities and platforms, to promote the transformation and upgrading of the printing industry as its own responsibility, and actively participate in the innovation and construction of new formats of the printing industry.