首先非常感谢第七届世界印刷大会组织委员会主席石宗源先生和第七届世界印刷大会指导委员会主席彼得·雷恩先生邀请我代表爱克发公司前来参加此次盛会。很高兴能来到具有悠久印刷历史的中国。追溯到公元前705年,中国就已经发明了纸张并作出改良,比古登堡早很多年。中国在油墨、木版印刷和泥活字印刷方面的发明已对文字的复制产生了巨大的影响。造纸术由中国传播到中东,然后再传到欧洲,共经历了500多 First of all, I am very grateful to Mr. Shi Zongyuan, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Seventh World Printing Congress, and to Mr. Peter Ryan, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Seventh World Printing Congress, for inviting me to attend this event on behalf of Agfa. I am happy to come to China with a long history of printing. Dating back to 705 BC, China had invented paper and made improvements, many years earlier than Gutenberg. China’s inventions in ink, woodblock printing and clay type printing have had a huge impact on the reproduction of texts. Papermaking spread from China to the Middle East, and then spread to Europe, has experienced more than 500