Basic Technologies

1. 1

   Project Planning

   Envisioning what output will be printed

   Project planning and designing

2. 2

   Information Processing

   Preparing the manuscript for printing

   Information processing technologies

   Book publishing involves text and photo arrangement, design, layout and editing work. The image processing stage is handled by DNP, including color adjustment for photos and images or eliminating unnecessary sections. This stage also involves pre-processing preparations, such as separating the manuscript into the four colors of cyan, magenta, yellow and black.

   

   

   Technologies used at this stage of the printing process

   Information processing technologies

   Information processing is a technology derived from pre-processing that serves to organize various information formats, including submitted text, photographs, illustrations and video. Such processing organizes file formats, coverts data into the optimal form, performs image color management, along with information organization and storage.
   Our ability to handle the vast amounts of data required for these tasks has been refined over time, and it has broadened its capabilities to include big data processing, analysis, and security technologies.

   • Font technologies

     

     DNP's original typeface, shueitai, has been in use since Japan's Meiji era (1868 to 1912). Our typeface technology has adapted to shifts in media across the generations, from metal printing blocks to computer phototypesetting and later, digital. To remain compatible with the digital age, modification were undergone to 120,000 typesetting characters beginning in 2005—an effort that spanned seven years. Currently, a Shueitai targeting images (displays) has also been developed.

   • Media conversion technology

     

     A technology for converting information data such as text and video images into respective formats, to match a variety of media, including paper, e-books, the internet and DVDs, along with communications.

   • Image processing and recognition technology

     

     A refining technology that applies appropriate processing to still and video images. This technology also reads off target images and identifies people and scenery, and is used for identifying people, photographing, and other purposes.

   • Big data analytic technology

     

     Big data analytic technology can extract, sort and processes information according to fixed parameters, including consumer usage trends for information services, purchasing records and climate change data. Set patterns are identified from the processed information to make forecasts or suggest improvements.

   • Information security technology

     

     With vast experience in handling highly confidential printed documents, such as bank books, ATM cards and stock and bond certificates, DNP has developed technologies for authenticating personal identity and encrypting data for secure transmission. By integrating software with hardware—as seen in smart card readers and writers—transactions are made possible under highly safe and secure conditions.

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3. 3

   Film and plate making

   Making a printing plate

   Micro fabrication technology

4. 4

   Printing

   Transferring ink onto paper

   Precision Coating

5. 5

   Binding and Post-processing

   Folding, gathering, and binding

   Post-processing technologies

Technologies that underpin the printing process

• Materials Development

  Organic synthesis technology, distribution and mixing technology, color and photosensitive materials and polymeric materials

• Evaluation and Analysis

  Analysis planning, analysis technology, process and material diagnosis technology, simulation technology, and analysis information database technology