"Project Bidding" Helps Northerners Solve Digital Printing Technology Difficulties

In France, a printing plant can undertake the printing of national textbooks; in China, Beijing's textbooks cannot even get printed in Tianjin, because it does not have a fully digital printing process. For a long time, most printing companies in China have imported printing presses from abroad.

In 2005, the Beiren Group, which has the highest technological content in the printing press manufacturing industry in China, has a national printing technology development center and a number of technical patents. After nearly a year of research preparation, it submitted a 2005 report to the Beijing Science and Technology Commission. The proposal for the major science and technology project of the year. The proposal was quickly passed. Beiren Group has undertaken the major science and technology project of Beijing---“Digital Printing Technology and Equipment”.

Beiren Group, which has nearly 60 years of printing history, has adopted the project bidding system of the Municipal Science and Technology Commission and adopted a joint research approach to make China's digital printing process possible.

In terms of printing technology, the Beiren Group is an “adept hand”, but when faced with difficult technologies such as digital image processing and non-axis transmission before the project, it became a “outsider”. How to solve this "big trouble"?

The project bidding system was used to complete the project together with the graduate school to solve the key technologies in the project. The project bidding system issued by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission in 2005 pointed out a “Ming Road” for Beiren Group’s optimal combination of resources.

For a time, the elites of various parties were summoned under the "digital printing technology and equipment" project through the tendering system.

The shaftless transmission technology of the project was won by Beijing Industrial University with many years of experience in cooperation with Germany; folding machines, offset presses and digitalization after printing are cooperating with Beigong University and Japanese manufacturers; digital image processing system before printing has color printing Jin Hao (Beijing) Electronic Systems Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of control systems, develops...

The problems were "broken up" one by one, and the "project bidding system" transformed the "digital printing technology and equipment" R&D team into a "golden combination."

At the same time, through the research and development of digital workflow projects, Beiren Group's offset presses and post-press equipment have been greatly improved in intelligence and digitization, and the single-machine technology content has been rapidly increased. Luchang Group, general manager of Beiren Group, said: “The tendering system has brought the Norther to a new era of pre-press, India-China and post-press digitalization.”

Through tendering and cooperation, joint research methods are used to take full advantage of the advantages of Beijing universities, institutions, and enterprises; through joint collaboration to shorten the project's research and development cycle, improve the quality of the project; through the needs of the market and the company-oriented Ways to support the research of universities, the research results are directly transformed into productivity, and a research line of "demand orientation" and "using research and development" is formed.

In the four years from 2002 to 2006, the proportion of bidding projects in Beijing as a whole has increased from 5% in 2003 to 67% in 2005. The proportion of science and technology expenditure led by the city's enterprises has increased from 1.7% to 73.9%, achieving a qualitative leap.

The director of the Advanced Manufacturing Office of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Hou Guoguang, said: "The 'Project Bidding System' is a brave attempt by the Municipal Science Commission to integrate scientific and technological resources and give companies more opportunities to make them stand out."