Production process of movable type printing

The production process of movable type includes: word picking, typesetting, printing, dismantling, and returning words.

The typesetting technology refers to the process of making plates of text according to certain procedures and formats before printing. The printing process of movable type in the classification of the word storage, picking the word layout, split the plate to return the word belongs to the category of typesetting technology.

The typesetting technology is the most fundamental difference between movable-type printing and engraved-type printing, which got rid of the complicated process of engraved-type printing, the fixed pattern of typesetting, and the problem that the position of words cannot be changed, so as to improve the working efficiency. From the records of Mengxi Bianan, we can learn that it was Bi (毕瘅) who invented movable-type printing and at the same time gave birth to typesetting technology.

The auxiliary work of movable type typesetting includes casting (including casting lead bars, lead lines and empty lead materials) and engraving. Mold manufacturing plant usually in accordance with the general word list supply of about 7,000 word mold, and professional articles and historical materials, often appear outside the general word list of cold words. Despite the fact that some printers prepare thousands of remote character mold spare, but still inevitably short of words, have to be temporarily engraved, so the engraving of the type of work is indispensable.

Future printing civilization:

The 21st century is a digital information, networking as the main technical characteristics of the knowledge economy era. Typography technology will continue to extend the meaning of evolution. With the progress of technology and change, "pre-press (Pre-press)" instead of the word "plate" has been accepted, the emergence of the "Pre

Referring to the traditional media, in addition to other optical, electric, magnetic multimedia and the Internet, etc., with image information digital processing technology, both for traditional media publishing services, but also for other new media publishing services, that is, for the production of cross-media "pre-media processing". Therefore, printing is the concept of information services has begun to be accepted.