The original prepress equipment in our country is basically the traditional simulation process equipment, before the absence of scanner and colorgraph, process camera is shouldering the reduction of original historical mission, its main production factory original jiangsu TaiXing instrument factory was the leader in printing machine industry at that time, and was also the main drafting unit of current industry standard in the printing plate making field, the process machinery market share of more than 80% in the s and s, it may be said is all the rage. So to say, plate making mechanical bearing dreams of a generation, achievement the Thai instrument short brilliant, also become the generation of Thai instrument's pride and eternal memory.

 Around 1995, with digital wave swept across the world, it brings the  technology revolutionary change before printing plate-making, so that the original old process machinery can only stay in the textbook, but only back to the museum. Thai instrument - once the iconic symbol of printing machine industry, pronoun of field of prepress plate making, also faded away in our vision.