According to the Printing and Printing Equipment Industries Association of China (PEIAC), China’s print industry grew 7.9% last year. This in the middle of a major global recession is rather impressive and interesting numbers to boot. Did you know that China has more than 100,000 commercial print-shops? (Source: Spindrift, volume 7, number 7 – 13 November 2009 issue)

Most historians agree, that China was the country which first invented the crude process of getting ink on paper or printing. (History of Printing And Gutenberg.) And of course Gutenberg’s big thing was not so much the printing press, but the invention of movable type. Anyway, back to China today; they have more than doubled their sales in the Chinese print industry since 2003 and in 2008 was at about $47 billion USD. (475 billion Yuan).

“According to the China Academy of Printing research there are 1417 digital platesetters installed in China with 280 in Taiwan and 150 in Macao and Hong Kong, which is around one third more than the previous year.”
Source: Spindrift, volume 7, number 7 – 13 November 2009 issue

It also states that they still use a lot of film. Thus sure hope they are using their FlightCheck Professional’s over there. (Preflighting before outputting to film, plate or direct to press is really a must in all cases.)

We also read in PrintWeek that the Chinese print market should see 8%+ growth, per year, for the coming years ahead. (see)

With approximately 11,000+/- printers in the UK and 65,000+/- in the USA, I am wondering how much of this Chinese business is coming from abroad. Does anyone have any figures on that?

Please feel free to comment below with any ideas on this. Thank you.

—Good Day—

Tags: China Academy of Printing, Chinese printing trade, commercial print-shops, PEIAC, preflighting, print market, printers in the UK, printers in the US

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