20世纪70年代末80年代初.在经济发达国家.书刊印刷业已基本普及激光照排、电子分色、高速胶印.装订联动技术。而我国印刷技术水平普遍落后.生产效率低下.还停留在落后的铅排,铅印及部分手工装订等陈旧工艺上.只有一些大型新华印刷厂由于承担政治任务.拥有一些先进设备。因此在改革开放初期.出书难、书刊印制质量低等问题非常严重,无法满足人民群众文化生活的需要。 In the late 1970s and the early 1980s, in the economically developed countries, books and periodical printing industry has basically popularized laser phototypesetting, electronic color separation, high speed offset printing, binding linkage technology. The printing technology in our country generally lags behind, and its production efficiency is low. It still lags behind the old lead-free, lead-printed and some manual binding processes, etc. Only a few large Xinhua printers have some advanced equipment due to their political tasks. Therefore, during the initial stage of reform and opening up, it was hard to publish a book and the quality of books and periodicals printed was very low, which made it impossible to meet the needs of the people’s cultural life.