Chapter 31 Demonstration of Lead Printing Technology and Ink

When the families went back, they all talked about papermaking, but their sons were happy to have such a brother, and it turned out that the rebellious hearts and some behaviors of these boys had become cute, and the previous belly fire did not know where it went. The family sent people to prepare money in the hope of accounting for a little more shares in the company, listening to the arrangement of Gao Pet, 30% of the company's shares were put up for auction, hoping that their relatives could auction some shares. Each family has a small abacus and sends important people out to Xuancheng and other contacts. In order not to cause unpleasantness, Gao Zhong also informed Zhao Yi and Zhao Heng of Hailuo Mountain not to embarrass the passing merchants.

When Gao Pet was at home, he prepared a set of lead characters of different font sizes, standard printing Song style, but because it was the word of the printing master, it was still very different from the modern printing style, and there were many improvements in the structure of the word, but Gao Pet did not have time, he selected a few commonly used font sizes according to the computer in his previous life, considering that the words printed in the Song Dynasty were relatively large, and he chose three font sizes of two, three and four, cast into a set of lead characters, and also used punctuation marks. There are only two or three thousand commonly used words in Chinese characters, because there are many words to repeat, hurry up and hurry, Gao Pet has made nearly 20,000 character molds, but all kinds of specifications have been designed, and it is also very convenient to burn and cast them in the future.

The ink has also been tried again and again in Tongling, and now the formula has a good effect, and the family has tried to print many times, and the draft articles of association of the company that Gao Pet gave to each family are printed with lead printing. In order to print this charter, many repetitive words have been prepared, and if other characters are printed, it may not be enough. If it is a poem, it is enough to have fewer repetitive words. But the family is still making word molds, and they can be sent over in a few days, and there are more than 100,000 word molds that are enough for the bookstore to use for a while.

Gao Pet arranged for someone to prepare the printing scene in the patio of the living room of the Guan family.

Early the next morning, the people of the four families also arrived early, and there were more people than yesterday. Especially the Shi family, not only the dragons and tigers of the Shi family have arrived, but also some masters of the Shi family, there are more than ten people. Therefore, the living room of the Guan family is very small, and everyone is more conscious that ordinary people do not enter the living room.

Because the technology demonstrated by Gao Pet is the core technology, so the selection of personnel has taken a lot of effort, which is responsible for a team composed of four members of the Guan family, and with everyone's request and support, Gao Pet has also clarified the punishment for leaking secrets and the technical recovery order.

"Today's demonstration is about typewriting, ink, typography and printing. You see that there are nearly 20,000 character molds in these character mold frames, but it is a drop in the ocean for a bookstore, and you think that if you need to print a "Zizhi Tongjian" or a "Historical Records", you need a word mold. The fonts here were rushed out before I came, and they were enough for us to demonstrate. ”

"This font is made of lead alloy."

What are the requirements for font patterns? One is the adsorption of ink, if the lead can not retain the ink, the quality of the print is not good, jade, gold, and some materials used to engrave seals generally have better ink adsorption. ”

The second is to be easy to cast, and the deformation is required to be small when casting, so that the cast words will not change. Most materials often shrink and become smaller when casting molds, but this lead alloy, on the contrary, will have a small expansion, so the cast words are very full, which is the main reason why we use lead words.

Thirdly, the lead characters have a longer life span than wooden characters and pottery molds. Fourth, what if this glyph is not in the font, it is very simple, carve one to make a glyph and then cast one, the melting point of this lead alloy is very low, and it can be melted on the stove.

"Now I'm going to talk about inks again. What are the requirements for printing inks? One is the color of the ink: we print black, green or red, according to the requirements of the printing to choose the appropriate materials, such as zinc white or lithopone, ultramarine, etc. “

"The second connecting material and solvent are one of the main components of ink, which mainly plays the role of dispersion pigment and auxiliary material."

It is made from a small amount of natural resin, such as rosin gum we used yesterday, or shellac (shellac), amber, added to some pulp, and dissolved in dry oils such as tung oil, catalpa oil, flax oil, etc., or solvents (glycerin). There is a certain fluidity, so that the ink forms a uniform thin layer after printing, and forms a film layer with a certain strength after drying, and protects the pigment, making it difficult to fall off.

The ink film should have a certain thickness and wear resistance, which requires filling some materials to improve its performance and adjust the ink concentration. There are mainly barium sulfate, talcum powder, calcium carbonate, alum, etc., which are ground into white powder when used. But they have no tinting power and no hiding power.

Sometimes the ink is too sticky, too thick what to do, it is necessary to use a thinner to adjust, its function is to reduce the viscosity of the ink, prevent the occurrence of film peeling, so that the ink has the adaptability of work. Commonly used diluents are low-polymerization flax oil, black tree seed oil, etc. These oils mix easily with the ink and have a gentle effect.

When the ink dries quickly, it will form a layer of orange peel on the surface of the ink, and the historian should have such an experience, so how to prevent it, it is necessary to add a certain anti-crusting material (phenol). Its function is to inhibit the drying rate of the ink and prevent the ink from drying the conjunctiva mechanically.

In printing will often be printed from the back side, the reverse side will be blurry and dirty when printing, what to do, it is necessary to use anti-reverse printing agent, corn starch can well prevent the printing ink layer from being printed on the back of the paper, in order to ensure the quality of printing. Isn't it simple? But it wasn't easy to find him.

It is necessary to improve the friction resistance and fluidity of the ink, reduce the viscosity, improve the finish of the film layer, and reduce the phenomenon of paper brushing. Slip enhancers are used. Wax is used here.

"You see, this ink is very inconspicuous, but in order to print a good effect, it is necessary to solve the problems of all links and create good ink. As you can see, the effect of different ink prints is very different, and there is a lot of knowledge in this. ”

As for how to improve the problem of printing typesetting and printing, and improve the efficiency of the high pet, there is no more to say, here is mainly the demonstration effect. The specific problems of factory operations will be discussed later.

Gao Zhong also brought the word version of the original draft of the company's articles of association and put it on the side.

Gao Zhong first lined up a simple printed poem. This is the familiar Li Bai's "Will Enter the Wine"

Gao Pet quickly arranged the version, Dazhu helped on the side, put it into a reversible frame and buckle it, opened the frame, put the font upside down on the side, brushed with ink, took a stack of paper, printed one by one, printed one by one, and printed hundreds of sheets in less than half an hour.

Everyone saw that the printed handwriting was clear and full, and the ink was black and bright, and it was very thick. To be able to have such a quality, thanks to the lead character and the ink.

Gao Zhong took another piece of wood engraving, and also printed more than ten sheets, as well as a sample of the historian's use of this engraving, so that everyone can compare different effects.

I also brought the paper made yesterday with a new process, because this paper uses the papermaking process of the Guan family, but it is almost the same as modern paper, but the surface is not rolled and starched, and the finish is worse.

Gao Zhong printed some on new paper, but it was the "Articles of Association of the Joint Stock Company", which obviously had a much better effect on new paper.

After the completion of the lead printing demonstration, it increased everyone's confidence. Several companies also discussed the issue of share ratio separately, and several collegial companies discussed that the inventory of each company's assets should be done first, and the meeting would be held in the afternoon.

Guan Peiyuan: "Darling, we discussed it and decided on a share distribution plan for you to see." We think about it this way, one is to take out 30% of the shares according to your opinions to recruit new shares to increase the strength of the total capital, although we are all heartbroken about this share, but each company is clear about its own strength, without new funds in, the company's operation will be more difficult. The new shares are divided into 30 shares, and the new shareholders shall not hold more than 5 shares per company. This guarantees our control rate. Each of us accounts for one percent, you provide technology, account for three percent, it is said that you provide so many advanced technologies and inventions, this month is a little less, if you have any comments, you can put forward. “

"The method of technology discount is according to your method, according to the three-year profit margin calculation at the beginning of the day, we close the technology discount of the highest about 5,500 yuan, and each company provides 10,000 yuan of cash into the company, to ensure that the discount of each share is not less than 20,000 yuan, and the lack of cash discount of each technology is filled with cash, you see if this will work."

"That's good, I don't have an opinion, how are your external funding connections."

"The news has been released, and a lot of people have come from all over the house, seeing that they can raise shares in a few days. The prospectus has been written, you can take a look. "This is Boss Sun speaking. These four companies also have the least discount for the technology stocks of the Sun family, only more than 2,000 guan, and the Shi family about 3,500 guan, but the Li family has the most dyeing and spinning, which is not much different from the Guan family, reaching 5,000 guan.

"The paper and printing technology I have made through demonstrations in the past few days, as well as the technology of solving hemp and silk reeling at Li's house tomorrow, are just to develop this stock fair, and to cheat more money back, of course, they will be glad to have made this decision. You should not be too small in one percent, maybe this year in half a year, at the latest next year will be turned over, and every year will grow very fast. Gao Chong really wanted to say: "Believe brother, that's right." ”

Arrange for the winding-up team to take stock of the property of each factory.

A technical research institute was established directly under the management of the company. A core technology confidentiality group is responsible for technical confidentiality, security and the construction of rules and regulations. The most important thing is to prepare for this IPO meeting, to have a display table, and to ensure that the relevant technology is not leaked.

This meeting started late.