As for those who are over 20 years old and do not know how to read or do arithmetic, Li Xiang feels that the potential for cultivation is too small, so it is better to send them directly to the workshop as an apprentice. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

These older craftsmen and apprentices, Li Xiang also planned to give them simple training, but how to teach them was a headache.

After intense construction, the Chunfeng Printing Factory was finally completed, with blue bricks and green tiles, and antique courtyards, which looked full of classical charm.

However, the biggest difference in this printing house is that it is a highly automated printing press, not the movable type printing used in this era, you must know that movable type printing has just been born, Li Xiang knows that if you use this movable type printing technology again, it will be too troublesome, and the printing speed is too slow.

So he used the super 3D printer in his body to print a very advanced inkjet printing machine. Of course, the ink can be used with the ink invented by Shen Kuo in this era, but it must be processed by a super 3D printer before it can be used on inkjet printing machines.

Of course, only Yuya, Xue'er and Li Xiang can enter the room where the printing press is placed, and the rest of the people don't know that there is a machine that can automatically print and bind books.

Although Yuya and Xue'er are very strange about this machine and how Li Xiang got it, they already regard themselves as Li Xiang's women, so they don't ask, they only know that Li Xiang has the ability that ordinary people can't, which is nothing.

China's printing technology has a long history and has spread far and wide. It is an important component of Chinese culture, which sprouts with the birth of Chinese culture and evolves with the development of Chinese culture.

Printing is a process technology, which belongs to the category of science and technology; Printing is also an industry. In later generations, the printing industry has formed a huge cross-industry system involving machinery, electronics, chemical industry, textile and other disciplines; Moreover, it occupies an important position in the national economy, is indispensable for human life, and is listed by Mr. Sun Yat-sen as one of the five indispensable elements of life after food, clothing, housing and transportation.

The invention of such a major process technology is by no means an accidental event that can be realized overnight. Looking at the problem from a historical point of view, the invention of any process technology in history is not accidental, and it must go through the development process from conception, germination, to prototype, to perfection. Typography is no exception. From germination to prototype to perfection, printing has gone through a long period of more than 3,000 years from the Five Emperors, Xia, Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States, Qin, Han, Two Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, and to the Sui Dynasty, and has completed the indispensable preparations for printing technology, such as printing materials, printing tools, and printing technology, and laid a solid foundation for the development and perfection of printing.

As far as traditional Chinese printing is concerned, printing must have a printing plate, and the printing plate is engraved by hand. It can be seen that the reality of hand-engraved technology is the source of printing. Hand carving techniques were used in pottery making and bark cloth printing in the late Neolithic period, about 5,000 years ago. This was the beginning of the printing process technology. In the Shang Dynasty, hand-carved techniques were widely used to carve characters on tortoise shells and animal bones. Since then, the hand-carved technology has become more and more mature, and has been used in Zhongding Yi ware, inscriptions, seals, bricks and tiles, thus giving rise to the transfer and reproduction technology that is quite similar to printing, such as sealing mud, stamping, printing and dyeing, rubbing, etc., which has laid a technical foundation for the invention and perfection of printing.

Printing is reproduction. Printing uses ink to transfer the graphics and text on the printing plate to the substrate. Printing inks and substrates are essential raw materials for printing. The substrates of printing are mainly fabrics and paper. Fabric is a necessity of people's lives, and it has been available for a long time. Paper appears later than fabric. The earliest surviving paper is hemp paper from the Wenjing period of the Western Han Dynasty. After Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty made major improvements to papermaking, it was widely used in writing and printing. Artificial ink production came from the pre-Qin period. In the past, people used natural minerals, such as sand and black earth. The Eastern Han Dynasty improved the ink-making technique, which provided an ideal material for writing and printing. The invention and perfection of fabric, ink, and paper laid a material foundation for the development of printing.

Printing, as a kind of transfer and reproduction, has two categories: image and content, in general, of the object and content of copying. Among them, due to the needs of social and cultural undertakings, the reproduction of words is especially important. At the same time, due to the widespread demand for words in society, it directly contributed to the maturity and perfection of hand-carved technology. Therefore, the birth, development and standardization of writing have become indispensable for the development of printing.

Long before the maturity of printing, at the end of the Neolithic period about 5,000 years ago, in the land of China centered on the Yellow River Valley, with the development of a comprehensive economy dominated by agriculture, people developed stone tools, wood tools, bone tools and primitive handicrafts such as textiles and pottery for the needs of survival, production and life. Among those related to the later printing were textiles, pottery, and later metal smelting technology. In order to beautify life, people began to depict, embroider or print beautiful patterns on the fabrics used to make clothing; painting, carving or photographing geometric patterns on pottery; And through metal smelting, metal carving knives and other tools are manufactured. Undoubtedly, these are closely related to the development of printing precursor technologies such as hand engraving, transfer copying, and fabric printing. It is the germination and origin of printing. Since then, with the development of social culture and science and technology, people's requirements for hand engraving, transfer reproduction, fabric printing and dyeing technology have become higher and higher, which has promoted the continuous development and maturity of these printing precursor technologies, which has directly contributed to the maturity and perfection of printing.

The invention and wide application of engraving printing has greatly saved manpower and time compared with hand-copied books. But with engraving printing books, to the whole book every word is engraved on the plate, including many repetitive words should also be carved out tirelessly, the workload of people, carved words can not be reused, but the plate storage management is inconvenient.

Li Xiang knew that two hundred years ago, Bi Sheng invented movable type printing. Shen Kuo also recorded in detail in "Mengxi Pen Talk", in fact, its process is not complicated, but it requires a large number of manpower, the production of movable type, word selection, typesetting, printing, dismantling, and word return.

The technological process of movable type printing includes the production, selection, typesetting, printing, disassembly, and return of movable type, which is almost exactly the same as the process of modern copper type typesetting and printing. But the disadvantage is that the clay type is not easy to preserve, and cannot be used for a second printing.

Later, there was a county official Wang Zhen who designed woodcut movable type, and invented the rotary typesetting frame, and the workers typeset with words when they typeset, which reduced the labor of typesetting.

Of course, even so, movable type printing is still too slow, or the automatic inkjet printing machine of later generations is fast, Li Xiang needs to make more money to develop his own power, so he must make Chunfeng Literature and Art Publishing House quickly become the new trend of Song Dynasty culture. (To be continued.) )