日星鑄字行 復刻歷史足跡(台灣立報)


張介冠繼承父親留下的日星鑄字行,讓鑄字的文化得以永續。(圖文/李宜霖)


日星鑄字行 復刻歷史足跡
2010-9-08 21:30 作者:李宜霖

【記者李宜霖台北報導】位於台北太原路上的小巷,隱藏著台北最後一間鑄字行;日星鑄字行老闆張介冠繼承父親的家業,持續復刻著歷史足跡。

台灣印刷產業已有1百年。張介冠表示,活版印刷過程是作者或公司行號把原稿擬好後,送到印刷廠把稿件編好,編好後送到鑄字行來檢字,撿好字後排成版印刷,之後送到裝訂行裝訂

活版印刷的興衰
張介冠的父親1926年出生,在日據時代是印刷工人,16歲進入報社學習相關技術。日星鑄字行從民國58年5月1日開始營業,至今已有42年。

日星鑄字行開業之前,張介冠的父親跟好友合作開印刷廠,民國56年,張介冠的父親想單獨創業,當時張介冠才15歲。民國58年父親創業,張介冠本來學修車床,隔年他擔負起責任,學習印刷相關技術。

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Taiwan craftsman seeks to save printing heritage (AP)



In this photo taken on July 22, 2010, Chang Chieh-kuan, 58, looks for imperfections in his Chinese character type which means "happiness" at his Ri Xing Type Foundry in Taipei, Taiwan. In the nearly extinct world of movable type, crowded out by digital printing, Chang's foundry is one of the last making traditional Chinese characters the old way, a craft that dates back almost a millennium. While time consuming and labor intensive, Chang said it brings out the grandeur of the characters. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Taiwan craftsman seeks to save printing heritage
By DIANA JOU
Associated Press
2010-08-23 08:13 AM

Hunched over a metal casting machine, Chang Chieh-kuan carefully guides a tiny copper mold into a hydraulic press. Seconds later he extracts a piece of lead type with the Chinese character for "happiness."


That's one down, thousands more to go in a last-ditch effort by this 58-year-old craftsman to rescue the millennium-old world of Chinese lead type from the advance of the digital age.

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台灣活版印刷文化保存協會成立會員大會



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