Chapter 359： Invention project (1/2)

When Rebecca got dirty, she was a little bit nervous when she got home - because in fact she didn't notice the stain on her face, so she went all the way from the Magic Technology Institute. When I came back, I was reminded by my servant after I got home that I didn’t wash my face, and this kind of behavior was always in the past...

But after seeing things on the high desk, all her fears and brain pains vanished.

"New machine design!" The girl jumped excitedly after seeing the drawings on the table. She reached out and grabbed it. "I look..."

Gao Wen slaps the girl's dirty paw back: "Look at your hand!"

"Oh!" Rebecca hurriedly took it back and slammed it on his body twice (in this action, at least in front of Herti, knocking his head five), then carefully rushed to the desk and looked at the weird machine, " What is this doing... Hey, mean to put the paper under this roller? Print something?"

Rebecca often does not always deal with all kinds of machinery and equipment, and has a certain understanding of Gao Wen’s thinking habits. When I saw the printing machine, I guessed its role and saved it. Gao Wen has a lot of trouble explaining, and the latter nodded: "This is a printing press."

“Printing, I know this,” Rebecca nodded. “The textbooks used in the school, the plaid and printed paper used in the office, and the labels used in the alchemy factory are printed...you Is the printing equipment improved? But this thing... looks completely different from what it is used on the ground."

Rebecca knows what printing technology is currently used on the territory - in fact, it is the technology that Ansu has already had, using a wax board to engrave text and patterns on it, forming an intaglio, and then mixing a bitter root The mud of the rattan powder is evenly poured on the wax plate, and then heated, the bitter root rattan mud will turn into a hard mud plate after heating, and the wax will melt, so that the carved version of the sun is obtained, which can be used for printing. Something is gone.

However, this method of plate making has great limitations. First, it can't go wrong when it is engraved. Once it is wrong, the whole wax board will be scrapped. Secondly, bitter root vine mud needs to be left for several hours to eliminate bubbles and pre-cure after covering the wax board. Then it can be heat-hardened, and the hardened slab is also brittle and fragile. Be careful when using it.

Even so, this printing technique is quite advanced – the aristocrats used this method to print a large number of letterheads and official papers with family patterns, which is also its main application.

The use of this printing technique in the printing of books is a precedent for Cecil, for the simple reason that only a large number of people are literate here, and a large number of people need to study...

In fact, Cecil led the printing of a large number of cheap books, printed on cheap paper, the cover of the book is not decorated with any metal and gemstones, nor is it fixed with a leather envelope or tie. The practice of the spine is in the eyes of traditional scholars in this world, "insulting sacred knowledge."

Many scholars came to Cecil to see the books that were cheap and "roughly made". After their traditional ideas, books must use exquisite parchment, and the worst must use hoarfrost. Production, copying by hand or shorthand magic, signed by a famous scholar, and finally using a lot of gorgeous, complicated, expensive decoration to make up.

However, Gao Wenyi ignored these pedantic voices - anyway, he had a prestige when he was a founding ancestor. He was not afraid of any challenge in the words "the right to speak."

Rebecca was curiously studying the design of Gao Wen. At first, she thought that this was the "improvement" of the existing printing technology on the territory, but soon she realized that the machine works and efficiency. Far from traditional printing techniques can be compared.

The basic "plate-transfer" concept is still there, but the way the machine works is too advanced - the word "continuous printing" has appeared in the girl's mind for the first time.

Sometimes, technicians lack only one direction.

“What needs to be solved now is 'plate making', or how to transfer text quickly and conveniently to this printing cylinder,” Gao Wen pointed to the core part of the machine, talking about the problems he is currently facing. “My requirements are three. First, the quick and convenient, the process of converting text into impressions on the drum must be faster than the current plate-making technology; second, it is easy to edit, and it can't be ruined like a traditional engraving. So this requires that the process of transferring the text to the drum is reversible, or that the text can be modified and reset before the transfer; thirdly, there is a certain connection with the second one, that is, the drum can be used multiple times. The print on it can be erased, not only to reduce costs, but also to improve the efficiency of the device."

"Wow..." Rebecca grew his voice. "Sounds... very challenging."

"Yes, it's a bit of a challenge," Gao Wen looked at Rebecca with a serious look. "So I have to hand it over to you - or to the Magic Institute of Technology to solve this problem."

Rebecca seems to understand: "The Magic Technology Institute..."

"The Magic Technology Institute is just to solve these application technology problems. The working methods of large-scale integrated laboratories are designed to solve these problems." Gao Wen smiled and nodded. "All kinds of creations." Talented craftsmen, organators, runesmen, and magicians are concentrated in a laboratory as 'magic technicians', using their own ideas to create ideas one after another, to discuss each other, help each other, achieve together, and jointly verify , all resources are used in one project, this is the role of those laboratories."