After that, it was Daqian Printing House that came to report on the work.

Daqian Printing Factory did not make any profit this year, but it was not because of poor management, but because Daqian Printing Factory invested all the money they earned into a new technological development: 3D printing.

To be honest, Daqian Printing Factory can think of developing such a black technology, or our boss Jia's pot.

At a high-level dinner last year, Director He of Daqian Printing Factory told Boss Jia that their printing factory did not know where the next direction of scientific and technological change in the printing industry was, and wanted to ask Boss Jia for advice.

But where does Boss Jia know the direction of scientific and technological change in printing, you can ask him to draw a piece of paper, just print.

However, Boss Jia can't say nothing, so doesn't it seem that Boss Jia is too incompetent, so he said with a smile, "The future direction of the printing industry may be 3D printing." ”

Boss Jia originally just said that 3D printing is one of the future development directions of science and technology, but people have nothing to do with the printing industry.

But Director He, a technology maniac, doesn't think so, 3D printing, as soon as I hear it, is very high-tech, and it is a matter of the printing industry, so Director He immediately began to ask Boss Jia for advice, what is called 3D printing.

Boss Jia actually doesn't know much, so he explained it simply, that is, first use the computer to build a three-dimensional model of the item, and then use some materials that can be quickly prototyped to additive printing layer by layer, and finally directly print out a three-dimensional item.

"Awesome, so that the printing industry will not be limited to paper or plane, we promise the industry, you can directly promise the item, this is a breakthrough in the dimensional development of science and technology!" Director He, a technical maniac, exclaimed on the spot, and then ran back to the factory without finishing the meal.

Boss Jia felt that the other party was just a temporary interest, but what he didn't expect was that three days later, Director He came to our boss Jia with a detailed 3D printing technology development plan.

In this plan, Daqian Printing Factory said that they hope to be able to complete the technology accumulation and sample building within three years, and put the world's first commercialized 3D printer on the market within five years.

Boss Jia is a little confused when he sees this plan, you must know that until 2020, although the technical concept of 3D printing is very hot, 3D printing itself is not very good.

Because the technical defects of 3D printing are very serious, first of all, because of the limitations of the use of materials, the products printed by 3D are basically plastic products, so the limitations of the products are great.

Secondly, the accuracy of 3D printing is not too high, and it is impossible to make a lot of very detailed things.

Also, 3D printing needs to be modeled, and the more complex the thing, the higher the cost of modeling, and it is very normal for a model to be tossed for several months.

Finally, and most importantly, the restriction of 3D printing is that the speed of 3D printing is very slow, a fist-sized thing, a machine also has to print a day, if it is a little bigger, it will be another week or two.

All in all, 3D printing may indeed be the development direction of the printing industry, but it is technically less practical than VR, and it is basically just a gimmick used to cheat money.

Of course, you can't say that 3D printing is useless, maybe in another 10 years or so, a 3D printer will become the standard configuration of every family, everyone often does not need to go out to buy things, use the computer directly under the next model drawing, and then use the 3D printer to print it out directly.

All in all, the future of the 3D printer itself is immeasurable, but it takes time, at least 30 years to start, and the result is that Daqian Printing Factory directly wants to get a 3D printer within 5 years, which is really unreliable.

Therefore, after seeing this plan, Boss Jia's first reaction was to refuse, and then explained in detail to Director He the difficulties and the reasons for his refusal, expressing his hope to change to a more stable way of development.

But Director He asked rhetorically, "We are now in a more secure direction of research, so a few years later, foreigners take the lead in making technological breakthroughs and occupy the entire 3D printer market, what should we do?" ”

"If we don't study it, will the technology come out on its own in a few decades?"

"Who says we can't make a technological breakthrough in 10 years, or even 5 years, what if it happens?"

Boss Jia was scolded by Director He and had nothing to say, no matter what, since Daqian Printing Factory wants to launch 3D printing, then let them get started, anyway, the profits of Daqian Printing Factory are nothing to Daqian Group, since people have this ambition, Boss Jia can't stop it.

Besides, Director He is not wrong, who said that it will not be possible to produce results within ten years, after all, the current world is completely different from before.

Boss Jia agreed to Daqian Printing's 3D printing development plan, and then Daqian Printing began to do it with great fanfare, not to mention the profits of the entire 97 years, as well as a lot of funds accumulated before, all of which were smashed into this project, and a year's effort spent 600 million yuan of investment, which can be called all the branches under Daqian, the most willing to spend money.

As for the results, Director He said that their main task at present is to overcome the problem of printing materials, to create a material that is easy to melt, but after re-solidification, the strength can be comparable to that of metal.

This is the most important material, in addition, they also want to manufacture hundreds of printing materials with different characteristics, so as to be able to meet the needs of a product, a full range of materials or something.

Boss Jia was speechless for a while, the material is not the main problem, the main problem is the speed of the promise, but Daqian Printing has not yet carried out research, and Boss Jia has a feeling that the money is smashed into the water.

If it weren't for Boss Jia's independent accounting firm to review the finances and find that there were no problems, and all the funds were indeed invested in scientific research, Boss Jia would have even wanted to stop the project directly.

But after Boss Jia made hundreds of billions of dollars, it doesn't matter, let Daqian Printing Factory play by itself, anyway, people use their own profits, as long as they don't ask the company for money.

The one who really came to ask the company for money was actually Wang Xuan, that is, Bilibili.

In fact, if they don't engage in the system, the profit is still very good, they have made a good name in the entire professional software field, and began to customize professional software for various enterprises around the world, creating a total of 80 million US dollars in foreign exchange profits.

In addition, they have even entered the general software market, Bilibili began to design and manufacture a CAD software, intending to break the market monopoly of the world's major industrial software manufacturers, which is really gratifying and has a lot of momentum for development.

But the whole Bilibili has lost money, and there is no money left, Boss Jia gave Beep Beep nearly 500 million US dollars before and after last year, and now it has all been spent, not to mention, this year it will continue to open its mouth, and it will directly ask for a billion dollars in research and development funds, seeing that Boss Jia wants to kick this guy out.

"Boss, we have a brand new technical idea!" Wang Xuan said excitedly: "We plan to make a Chinese assembly language out, so that our new PC system is written based on Chinese assembly language, so that we can completely bypass all Microsoft's patent barriers!" ”