Printing Engineering is the only discipline that has been included in the Key Construction Disciplines of 211 Project in this field. The main research contents of Printing Engineering are image-text information and its carrier. It mainly researches Image-Text Information Carrier, Image-Text Information Processing, Quality Control, Cross-media Electronic Publishing, the Theory and Technology of Web Publishing. This major aims at cultivating highly-qualified professional talents with the ability of image-text information acquisition and processing, the knowledge of printing engineering, the knowledge of principles and process of image reproduction, the knowledge of the theory of image-text information communication, the capability of printing production, organization and management in industrial production.

Main courses of this major include Introduction to Printing Engineering, the Principle of Printing Machines, Printing Material, Information Recorded Material, Chromatology, Image Reproduction Theory, Principle of Offset Printing, Pre-press Processing Technology, Post-press Technology, Special Printing, Quality Analysis and Quality Control of Printing, Printing Enterprise Management, Economic Publishing and Cross-Media Technology, Digital Printing, etc.

Graduates of this major mainly work in printing industry such as prepress processing, printing, post-press, economic publishing design and production. They can also work in related universities and colleges, news presses, advertisement companies and other related companies.