Printing

Hong Kong's printing industry not only plays an important role in the industrial sector, but it is also closely linked with all trades and professions.  At present, the printing industry is one of the top 4 industries in Hong Kong and is also the fourth largest printing centre in the world, trailing only the United States, Germany and Japan.  Printed matter is one of Hong Kong's top ten exports.  By 1999, there are 5,117 establishments in Hong Kong, with an emplyment size of 44,395 people and an exporting value of 4,033 million in Hong Kong dollars term.

The rapid economic growth in Hong Kong, the industrial and commercial prosperity, and the accerlating dissemination of information have stimulated the demand for high-quality packaging products, instructional leafletse and various printed materials for promotion purposes.  These factors have given direct impetus to the further development of the printing industry.  In addition to quantitative increase, quality of printing matters is improving with the stimulation of market demand.

Banknote of many countries including those of Hong Kong, are produced to exacting standard by a printing company in Hong Kong.

Beer cans are being labellied by offset printing at a packaging factory which produces more than 1.1 million cans a day.

A printing machine operator carefully checks sheet production from a 10-colour web-offset press during the printing of a high-circulation international magazine.  The machine is typical of the latest production equipment installed in Hong Kong's larger printing plants.

A worker is operating computerized stylesetting system.