日星鑄字行簡史
創辦於1969年的日星鑄字行，位於台北市大同區太原路97巷13號，空間約70餘坪，創始人張錫齡期許工廠「日日生產、日日生財」以養家活口，故取「日日生」之寓意，命名「日星」。在活版印刷產業精細的分工中，鑄字行主要的工作是「鑄字、檢字、補字」，營業對象主要為印刷廠，早期因鑄字行的銅模珍貴，一般不對外開放，而是在門口收稿、門內檢稿、門外等字。
日星歷經1970-1985年代的鼎盛潮，1985年代中期以後，活版印刷因為電腦的逐漸普及，平版印刷取代而逐漸衰落，直到2001年，台灣最大的中南鑄字行結束營業，宣告活版印刷時代的一去不復返。現任老闆張介冠曾經和父親張錫齡並肩經歷過印刷需求量極大、日鑄十萬字的黃金時期，見證了台灣活版印刷產業的興衰。成為全台唯一仍持續生產繁體中文的鑄字行，張介冠也成為唯一掌握鑄造鉛字技術的師傅。
2008年之後，經由《蘑菇手帖》的報導披露，以及愈來愈多的媒體與網路報導，日星鑄字行在國際的能見度漸漸提高，日星開始打開大門，對大眾營業，也將鑄字的文化從工業時代的產業轉向為工藝文化的傳承，將鑄字及活版印刷產業作為文化載體曾經的重要性，啟動技術傳承、教育推廣、瀕臨壞損的字體銅模修復、產業轉型及面向數位時代服務品質改善、鉛字搜尋系統的建立等。
日星現在擁有楷書、宋體、黑體等三種繁體中文字體，是日常中最常用的，並根據規格分為初號到六號，七種大小。全廠共約有十多萬枚銅模。持續致力於以「昔字、惜字、習字」的精神，為台灣活版印刷的興衰歷史及漢字文化的發展留下見證。
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Founded in 1969, Ri Xing Type Foundry is located at No. 13, Lane 97, Taiyuan Road, Datong District, Taipei City. The space is about 231,406 square meters. Chang Hsi-ling, the founder of Ri Xing, named this type foundry “Ri Xing” (meaning renewing every day). Chang hoped that Ri Xing can be efficient and prosperous every day and make money to support his family.
Letterpress printing industry has clear divisions of duties, and a type foundry has three main duties: type-casting, type-indexing, and type-mending. And its main clients are printing plants. At the early stage of development of letterpress printing, copper molds were precious to a type foundry. Thus, instead of being open to the public, it let employees collect manuscripts at the door, check manuscripts inside the foundry and wait for types outside the door.
Ri Xing experienced the peak of letterpress printing industry from 1970 to 1985. After mid-1985, with the growing popularity of personal computers, letterpress printing was replaced by offset printing and declined. Until 2001, Chung NaN Type Foundry, the biggest type foundry in Taiwan, was out of business, the era of letterpress printing had gone forever. Chang Chieh-kuan, the present owner of Ri Xing, had experienced the golden age with his father Chang Hsi-ling when letterpress printing was in high demand and a type foundry had to cast one hundred thousand types every day. Now Ri Xing is the only remaining type foundry that still makes traditional Chinese characters. And Chang Chieh-kuan is the only typecasting master in Taiwan.
After Ri Xing was reported by MOGU Magazine and more news media and online news in 2008, Ri Xing has increased its visibility worldwide. Ri Xing started to open to the public and tried to turn the typecasting culture into a cultural heritage. Highlighting the importance of typecasting and letterpress printing industry as a cultural carrier, it can pass the technique down to future generations, promote related education, mend copper molds which are either partly or wholly worn, conduct digital transformation and the improvement of service quality, and build the type searching system and so on.
At the moment, Ri Xing has three commonly used traditional Chinese typefaces: Kaiti (楷體), Songti (宋體), and Heiti (黑體). Each typeface size ranges from No. 0 to 6. So far Ri Xing has kept more than over one hundred thousand copper molds to cast types. In the future, it will continue to fulfill its spirit －“Xi Zi (昔字), Xi Zi (惜字), Xi Zi (習字).” These three sets of Chinese characters have identical pronunciation with different meanings－” ancient types, cherish and preserve ancient types, and learn from ancient types.” And it will be a witness to the peak and decline of letterpress printing and the development of Chinese character culture as well.
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