Since the Qinghua era, the Shanghai Album Printing Factory has experienced a hundred years of vicissitudes, continuously in the long river of history, in the industrial evolution torrent sublimation. This process, is undoubtedly a glittering trace, such as the dousu in the night, illuminating China's printing industry's forging ahead road.

Initially, the Shanghai Albums Printing Factory operated by hand engraving and printing, which was very elementary in technology and inefficient in production. However, under the fine management of the manufacturers and the improvement of the workers, the albums produced by them gradually gained market recognition with exquisite patterns and excellent quality. Main processes also include gravure printing, flexo printing, screen printing and so on, becoming the leading printing factory in Shanghai.

With the progress of science and technology, the printing industry has also ushered in new innovation. In the 1970s, the Shanghai Album Printing Factory took the lead in introducing the latest phototypesetting technology from western countries, breaking the traditional type printing technology, and greatly improving the work efficiency and printing quality. This move marked that the factory had embarked on the road of modernization.

Then in the 1980s, the Shanghai Album Printing Factory further followed the pulse of science and technology, and took the lead in introducing all-digital printing and plate-making technology and four-color halftone printing technology in China, which made the printing picture more vivid and delicate, and made the color more abundant and bright, thus opening a new chapter in China's printing industry.

In the 21st century, the global trend of environmental protection and energy saving puts forward higher requirements to the printing industry. In order to respond to the call of the times, the Shanghai Picture & Album Printing Factory has successfully realized the historical transformation from a polluting industry to a low-carbon environmental protection with its highly independent technological R&D capability and a strong pollution control system. Her birth represents a new chapter in the printing industry. It symbolizes the future of China's printing industry.

At the same time, the market trend of intelligent automation also brings critical challenges and huge opportunities to the printing industry. Shanghai Picture Album Printing Factory has been ahead of this wave by introducing advanced robotic automatic printing equipment and cloud computing information management system, which realizes unmanned operation of pre-press, in-press, and post-press, leading the trend of the printing industry once again.

In conclusion,Shanghai Album PrintingThe development course of the factory shows the three transformations of Chinese printing industry from tradition to modernity, from pollution to environmental protection, and from manpower to intelligence. In the future, Shanghai Picture Album Printing Factory will continue to pursue innovation and promote the printing industry to a new era of intelligentization, greening and informationization, paving the way for China's printing industry and sketching its brilliant future.

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