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  Read more... (291 words, 1 image, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)