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ppzhan News: At present, the definitions involved in standardization building include: standards, specifications and methods. "Standards" are relatively widely applied and undergo the assessment and accreditation procedures of a certain management body (such as ISO); "specifications" are detailed descriptions designed as standards for a particular job; "methods", meanwhile, are the approach, technique or procedure for a certain thing or for carrying it out. In the printing industry, ISO12467 is an industry standard; GRACoL and SWO

ppzhan News: Citing Feng Fei, director of the Industrial Economics Research Department of the Development Research Center of the State Council of China, during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period China's economy is both in a golden period of development and a period of prominent contradictions. In this period, the contradiction between heavy chemical industry and the low-carbon economy will become more acute; at the same time, the acceleration of urbanization will also drive further adjustment of the industrial structure. The printing industry likewise faces numerous contradictions during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, and a favorable development environment and the weak reform momentum of printing enterprises will be the

ppzhan News: The General Administration of Press and Publication is organizing the formulation of the 12th Five-Year Development Plan for the printing industry. The overall goal is: by the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan period, major progress shall be made in the transformation from a major printing country into a printing power, and efforts shall be made to realize the goal of becoming a strong power ahead of schedule within the press and publication industry. To transform from a major printing country into a printing power, green printing is very important, but digital printing must not be neglected even more, and the two will become the keywords for the future development of China's printing industry. From China's development over the past two years

ppzhan News: On July 20, 2010, an employee at a packaging company in Laiyang, Yantai, Shandong, had his arm accidentally caught in a paper cutter; on August 15, a worker at a bag factory in Hui'an County, Quanzhou, Fujian, had his hand "eaten" by a printing press after a mistake; on October 9, a man at a carton plant in Lanxi, Jinhua, Zhejiang, had his left arm "bitten" by a water-based ink printing and slotting machine… Over the past three months, the media has reported several accidents in which printing presses "bit" hands. Such as printing presses

ppzhan News: The Standardization Administration of China recently issued a notice on the approval and release of national standards (No. 6 of 2010) on its website, approving and releasing 264 national standards, including 17 packaging industry standards. Of these 17 packaging industry standards, 9 are newly formulated and 8 are revisions. One is a mandatory standard ("Cement Packaging Bag"), effective July 1 next year; 16 are recommended standards, effective March 1 next year. These 16 recommended

ppzhan News: On May 14, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published a notice on its website approving a total of 192 standards across three industries — machinery, light industry and packaging. Six of them involve the printing and packaging industry, all taking effect on October 1 this year. Of these six standards, four are classified as light industry industry standards and published by China Light Industry Press; two are classified as packaging industry standards and published by China Planning Press. The four light industry standards are all revisions, replacing

ppzhan News: Some industry experts believe that in the future the packaging paper industry, by virtue of the recyclability of paper packaging, will benefit from the introduction of national carbon-reduction standards for packaging. According to a report in Paper Packaging Industry, from January 1, 2011, there will be national standards to follow for pre-reducing packaging volume, reusing packaging and recycling packaging materials. In August this year, the Standardization Administration of China issued the "Announcement No. 3 of 2010 on the Approval of National Standards", among which

ppzhan News: During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the main goals for R&D on digital workflows are: to develop workflow and interface technologies that conform to mainstream standards, raise the digitalization level of printing processes and the automation level of multi-color printing equipment, with some products reaching advanced levels by 2015. Digital printing and printing digitalization technology and equipment (1) Digital printing presses, with the focus on inkjet digital printing presses: At present, digital printing presses are mainly divided into electrostatic imaging digital printing

ppzhan News: As an important supporting industry for the development of the printing industry, the printing equipment manufacturing industry must, in accordance with the requirements of the printing industry's development, strengthen independent innovation capacity, carry out R&D and production of key printing technology and equipment, and provide strong support for China's goal of building a world printing power. In light of the current development trends and tasks facing the printing industry, during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, the printing equipment manufacturing industry will make key breakthroughs in the following areas. 1

ppzhan News: As a field of industry, printing is judged by its products — the scoreboard of the printing industry. If printing products are not made well, the knock-on effects spread like falling dominoes. For China's printing industry, products have long been the target of criticism: although "Made in China" has shaped the habits of people around the world, it often brings thin margins and slow sales, losing money just to make a noise, with raw, labor-intensive products as the embodiment of value, and the products we make