The History of Printing

Economic development promotes the improvement of people's living standards, which in turn promotes the development of new economic fields. At the same time, a variety of peripheral technologies are constantly developed, improved and updated. The new economic industry - cosmetics has increasingly entered people's life, become an indispensable part of people's life, it is increasingly variety, its competition is more and more fierce. Just an eyeshadow palette or lipgloss tube, for example, comes in a variety of packages and designs. The packaging design of cosmetics has become an important factor to occupy a favorable market position.

Good cosmetic packaging design needs the support of printing process. At the same time, the improvement of printing technology will also bring new development of cosmetics packaging design, new ideas. Among them, screen printing as our country has a long history of printing methods, in the modernization of today has already kept pace with The Times, have new development, rise to prominence. And it in the cosmetics this special emerging commodity packaging shows unique advantages, is an indispensable part of the packaging design. For example, the pattern on the glass cosmetic bottle, the LOGO on the acrylic cosmetic bottle, the product description on the plastic cosmetic bottle, the pattern on the bamboo cosmetic bottle and so on. So how did printing develop?

Printing originated in China and is one of the four great inventions of ancient China. It is formed by the development of the lithography and seal two methods, is after a long time, the accumulation of many people's experience. Printing started from block printing in the Sui Dynasty, and developed and improved through Bi Sheng, resulting in movable type printing. During the Yuan Dynasty, the communication between China and Europe developed greatly. On the one hand, there was the Mongol expedition, which brought Chinese culture to the West. On the other hand, Western missionaries came to China many times and brought Chinese printing techniques with them when they returned home. Bi Sheng is also known as the originator of printing. With the passage of time, printing industry has experienced a history of more than five thousand years in ancient, modern and contemporary times. China's printing technology was the forerunner of modern human civilization and created conditions for the extensive dissemination and exchange of knowledge. Printing spread to Korea, Japan, Central Asia, West Asia and Europe.