The technological situation in China's publishing industry

The technological situation
Printing is one of four inventions of ancient China. However, China¡¯s printing technology was backward until recently. Since 1978 when China started economic reform and opening to the world, China¡¯s printing and printing equipment industries have developed impressively. Chinese companies have started to use ¡°color offset printing, electronic color separation, laser phototypesetting, in-line automatic binding¡±, and gradually marched into the era of computerization. By 1996 over 90 per cent of typesetting in China was computerized (Drury, 1998).
Offset printing has become a dominant process in publ...