After the efforts of engineers from both China and Japan, the first printed color card finally came down from the production line.

The engineers on both sides had smiles of successful challenges and successful challenges. The joy that was overflowing seemed to be able to fill the sea of ​​Japan and pave a smooth road for China-Japan friendship.

Takahashi was also happy when he watched the ceremony on site. After a long period of persistence, the things that finally succeeded, and it was finally happy.

The director of the poker factory also felt happy. However, his happiness was not about his happiness with technology, nor about his happiness with persistence, but about his happiness with the fact that he could finally make money.

Although the money he earns is not the money that cards are sold in the market, the production costs of each card given by tens of thousands of households are increasingly fierce compared to the increasingly fierce competition, and it is difficult to obtain playing cards in a larger market, and the profits are much higher.

If you produce a box of poker, the retail price is only 500 yen and the ex-factory price is 200 yen. Fifty-four pokers, outer packaging, transportation fees, raw materials, etc., the profit of each box of poker can only be twenty or thirty yen.

If the economy had not been good in recent years, the prices of raw materials were still not high, and more and more people like to play poker and gambling, the veteran poker giant Nintendo has focused most of its energy on electronic games. Maybe his factory would have gone bankrupt long ago.

In fact, two months ago, he had always been dissatisfied with the engineers on the site.

Not because of anything else, but because of the conscience of the capitalist.

The changes in poker products over the years cannot be said to be huge. The several engineers hired by the factory are usually used as maintenance technicians.

However, engineers are the price of engineers after all. Even if they use the functions of technicians, they cannot really be considered technicians.

Lifetime employment system is not only a kind of clampdown for workers, but also for business owners. Perhaps large enterprises can die of centipede without being stiff, and a camel that can die of leanness is bigger than a horse, so they can survive.

However, for companies like poker factories that can only be considered medium-sized enterprises at most. When business is difficult, workers' wages may be the last hanging rope.

Enterprises cannot voluntarily dismiss employees, but can only wait for employees to voluntarily resign. However, leaving a company will almost be thrust into the backbone.

This is almost a dead cycle.

If Takahashi hadn't appeared with the cards, maybe the engineers who gave lectures to Chinese engineers had been hidden by Leng Baolixue and forced them to resign themselves.

After Takahashi appeared, since he was not a person in the poker industry, he was not clear about the cost of playing cards and had room to be fooled.

Secondly, the technical content of the cards Takahashi wants to make is actually quite good.

The printing industry in the 1980s was far less developed than people imagined. Although electronic technology was already used as an addition, it could not make computer versions like in the future.

Most of the energy of Chinese and Japanese engineers over the past few days has actually been devoted to handmade plates.

Pieces of hard alloys were hand-drawn little by little with tools to create the desired pattern.

The handmade card image template does not directly enter the production line.

Engineers used another material to turn the molding of the master, which they called the master. The specific process was more like the real-life reversing silicone products that boys in later generations had more opportunities to come into contact with.

In order to pursue the exquisiteness of the cards, the "Game of Destiny" cards adopt the six-color overprinting technology.

A piece of cardboard will be printed six times.

Black, blue, light blue, red, light red, yellow.

Compared with four-color printing, six-color printing has better printing effect and clearer color layers. There will be no turtle patterns and dot diffusion that will always be encountered in four-color printing, nor will it appear so flat. Moreover, it can also make up for the missing colors that human eyes can recognize during the four-color printing process.

The technology of overprinting of six-color ink has also become a newly developed technology for Wanhu and this printing factory to solve the problem. Takahashi used money to buy the ownership of part of the technology in the printing factory, and combined it with Wanhu himself to apply for a patent.

Takahashi also agreed with his engineers that the width of the six-color printing technology should be wider and more patents should be registered. In this way, other companies will have to find tens of thousands of households if they want to use this technology to obtain better printing quality in the future.

Takahashi is not stingy about money. He told the Wanhu engineers involved in the project that every patent licensing income of this technology will have their share.

The newly printed cardboard will not be cut immediately. There is another process before cutting, which is coating.

There is no coating process for early poker or flower slips.

However, because cards are always in the hands of people, these cards will encounter the discoloration and discoloration of ink marks during actual use.

Although I can't see clearly, I change to a new card. However, playing cards for a while will make one hand dirty. When I wash my hands and continue playing cards, I will directly make the cards wet. It's really unhappy to have another hand of ink.

A card manufacturer in Japan introduced a coating machine from the United States. After the coating, the cards not only will the ink marks not be stained on their hands, but their hands are always clean.

More importantly, the whole card looks even more dazzling.

Taking advantage of the lag time when other companies are still making ordinary cards, the cards named "Flash Card" were coated and sold at a retail price of 100 yen higher, but they are still sold out.

Then, the card manufacturers who seemed to have woken up from their dreams began to follow up the coating process one by one. It has become a tradition now.

The coating did not start immediately, and the six-color overprinted ink dries slowly.

Because it is trial production, it is enough to dry naturally. When it comes to formal production, the dryer that is still under debugging must come in handy to accelerate the drying of the card.

"The pattern is no problem! Laminate!" An engineer said after checking that there was no misalignment in the six-color overprint.

"Laminate!" another engineer who assisted the operation shouted again.

After two confirmations, the operator said, "Start the coating." Then press the button and swallowed a whole large piece of cardboard into the machine.

The hot robotic arm covers the card with plastic film.

The gelatinous substance on the film, which is extremely active due to heating, desperately sticks to the surface of the card without leaving a trace of space.

The cardboard covered with plastic film on the front was spit out, and an automatic mechanical fold was mentioned, and the back without the film was turned over.
Chapter completed!