国际知名印刷业观察家Andrew Tribute,在月前的一篇文章里透露一则消息,专业教育与旅游图书的英国皮尔森(Pearson)出版集团,开始用数码印刷设备印书。数码印书已经行之多年,并不足奇,但大型出版机构从传统印刷转向数码印刷,有带头的意义。数码印刷多用来补书,大家熟知的美国数码印书厂Lightning Source,每天印制几万本书,每一订单还不到两本。皮尔森则是以数码印刷生产,第一版就用数码 Andrew Tribute, an internationally renowned printing industry watcher, reported in a month earlier a publication by Pearson Publishing Group, a British newspaper specializing in education and travel, began printing with digital printing equipment. It is not surprising that digital printing has been going for many years, but the shift from traditional printing to digital printing at large publishing houses has taken the lead. Digital printing is mostly used to fill the book, we all know the United States digital printing plant Lightning Source, printed tens of thousands of books a day, each order less than two. Pearson is based on digital printing production, the first edition to use digital