Discussion on the Types of Modern Printing Techniques in Shenzhen Printing Factory's Step Shell Printing

Discussion on the Types of Modern Printing Techniques in Shenzhen Printing Factory's Step Shell Printing

Modern papermaking and printing technology have completely bid farewell to the era of parchment and handwritten copies on the European continent. As mentioned earlier, Gutenberg not only had originality in casting and typesetting, but also pioneered the spiral prototype printing machine in printing, which has been used in various countries around the world for more than 400 years. Gutenberg is widely recognized as the founder of modern printing due to a series of creative inventions.

After Gutenberg created the relief printing technique, Western Europe first created and improved the production process of paper type lead plates, rubber relief plates, and other replicated plates, improving the quality, printing volume, and printing speed of relief printing products. Starting from the 19th century, Europe underwent a mechanized revolution. In 1845, Germany produced the first rapid printing press. In 1860, the United States produced the first batch of rotary machines. Later, Germany successively produced two-color rapid printing machines specifically for printing newspapers. Around 1855, printing machines were already capable of reproducing various types of documents and paintings at high speed, with an efficiency of up to 10000 sheets per hour. By 1900, the six color rotary machine had been manufactured. After about a century, industrialized countries successively completed the mechanization of the printing industry. The large-scale and efficient mechanized printing process greatly improves work efficiency and greatly reduces printing costs.

At the beginning of the 20th century, mechanized printing became the mainstream of printing technology, and even today modern printing has added digital printing. However, in terms of its plate making types and printing processes, its principles have not fundamentally changed. Printing plates can be divided into four categories: relief plates, intaglio plates, planographic plates, and perforated plates, depending on the relative position and structure of the printed and blank parts. Conventional printing can be divided into four types of printing plates: relief printing, gravure printing, offset printing, and stencil printing.

Discussion on the Types of Modern Printing Techniques in Shenzhen Printing Factory's Step Shell Printing