Through the efforts of Chinese and Japanese engineers, the first printed color card finally came off the production line.

The faces of the engineers on both sides were full of smiles and joy that they had successfully challenged the difficult problems, and it seemed that they could fill in the sea and pave a smooth road for Sino-Japanese friendship.

Takahashi, who was watching the ceremony at the scene, was equally happy, and after a long period of perseverance, he finally succeeded, and he was able to make people happy.

The director of the poker factory was also happy on his face. However, his happiness is not that he is happy with technology, nor is he happy that perseverance has finally achieved results. It's about being happy that I can finally start making money.

Although the money he makes is not the money that the cards sell in the market. However, the production cost of each card given by 10,000 households is much higher than that of the increasingly fierce competition, and it is difficult to obtain a larger market for playing cards.

The retail price of a box of poker is 500 yen at most, and the factory price is 200 yen. Fifty-four cards, packaging, shipping costs, raw materials, etc., the profit of each box of poker can only be twenty or thirty yen.

If it weren't for the economic improvement in recent years, the price of raw materials is still not high, and more and more people like to play poker for money, the old poker giant Nintendo has focused most of its energy on video games. Maybe his factory would have closed down a long time ago.

In fact, two months ago, he had been dissatisfied with the engineers on the field.

Not because of anything else, but because of the conscience of the capitalists.

The changes in poker products over the years can not be said to be big, and several engineers recruited by the factory are usually used as maintenance technicians.

However, after all, engineers are the price of engineers, and even if they use the functions of technicians, they cannot really be regarded as technicians.

Lifetime employment is not only a constraint for workers, but also for business owners. Maybe big enterprises can die without stiffening a hundred-legged insect, and a camel that can die of emacia is bigger than a horse, and how can it survive.

However, for a company like Poker Factory, which can only be considered a medium-sized business at best. In times of business difficulties, workers' wages may be the last hanging rope.

Enterprises cannot take the initiative to dismiss employees, but can only wait for employees to resign voluntarily. However, leaving a business is almost always poked in the back.

It's almost an endless loop.

If it weren't for Takahashi's appearance with the cards, perhaps the engineers who gave lectures to the Chinese engineers would have been hidden by the cold and violent snow, forcing them to resign themselves.

After Takahashi appeared, since he was not an insider in the poker industry, he was not clear about the cost of making playing cards, and there was room for him to be fooled.

Secondly, the cards that Takahashi wants to make are actually quite technical.

The printing industry in the eighties was far less developed than people imagined. Although there is already electronic technology as a bonus, it cannot be computer-made as it will be in the future.

Most of the energy of the Chinese and Japanese engineers over the past few days has actually been put into hand-made plates.

Piece after piece of hard alloy is hand-chiseled with tools little by bit to create the desired pattern.

The handmade card image template didn't go straight to the production line.

The engineers used another material to turn the master, which they called the master, in a process that was more similar to the real inverted silicone products that boys had more access to in later generations.

In order to pursue the sophistication of the cards, the "Game of Destiny" cards use the six-color overprinting technique.

A piece of cardboard will be printed six times.

Black, blue, light blue, red, light red, yellow.

Compared with four-color printing, six-color printing has a better printing effect and a more distinct color level. There will be no tortoise patterns and dot spread that are always encountered in four-color printing, and it will not appear so flat. Moreover, it can also compensate for the lack of colors that can be recognized by the human eye during the four-color printing process.

And this six-color ink overprinting technology has also become a new technology developed by Wanhu and this printing factory in order to solve the problem. Takahashi used the money to buy the ownership of part of the technology in the hands of the printing house, and combined it with Manhe's own part. I went and applied for a patent.

Takahashi also agreed with his own engineers to make the width of the six-color printing technology wider and register more patents. In this way, if other companies want to use this technology to obtain better printing quality, they will have to come to Wanhu.

Takahashi is not stingy with money, he told the 10,000 engineers involved in the project. For every patent grant for this technology, they will have a share.

The newly printed cardboard is not cut immediately, and there is another process before cutting, which is lamination.

There is no laminating process for poker or flower magazines that get up early.

But because the cards are always in people's hands, in the actual use of these cards, these cards will encounter the situation of ink discoloration and discoloration.

Although I couldn't see it clearly, I changed to a new card. But playing for a while can make a dirty hand. I washed my hands and came back to continue playing cards, and I directly let the cards get wet, and it was really unpleasant to have another hand of ink.

A certain card manufacturer of this book introduced a laminator from the United States. After the laminated cards, not only will the ink not stain the hands, but the hands will always be clean.

What's more, the whole card looks shiny and more eye-catching.

Taking advantage of the lag time when other companies were still making ordinary cards, the solitaire card, which was named "glitter card" after being laminated, retailed 100 yen higher, and was still sold out of stock.

Then, as if the card factories had just woken up from a big dream, they began to follow up the lamination process one by one. It has become a tradition by now.

Lamination did not start immediately, and the ink for six-color overprinting dries more slowly.

Because it is a trial production, there is enough time to dry in the shade, and when it comes to official production, the dryer that is still being debugged will have to come in handy to speed up the drying of cards.

"The pattern is fine! Lamination!" said an engineer after checking that the six-color overprint was not misaligned.

"Lamination!" shouted another engineer assisting in the operation again.

After two confirmations, the operator said, "Start laminating." Then press the button and swallow a whole piece of cardboard into the machine.

A scorching robotic arm that covers the cards with plastic film.

The gelatin, which is extremely active due to the heating on the film, desperately sticks to the surface of the card, leaving no gaps.

The cardboard covered with plastic film on the front was spit out, and there was an automatic mechanical folding, and the back of the uncovered film was turned over to it.

With the sound of the machine's gears snapping, the cardboard enters the second tire laminating machine and is laminated for the second time.