The Hong Kong Printers Association and Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Kwun Tong) jointly organised a project to assist local printing and publishing companies to migrate to the latest digital production workflow in 1999. Based on a HK$8.58 million funding from the Innovation and TechnologyFund, Advanced Printing Technology Centre (APTEC) was established on 3rd May 2000.

Although the project under Innovation and Technology Fund was successfully completed on 31st Jan 2003, APTEC continues its services to the industry by operating in a self-financing and non-profit distributing mode. Now APTEC is incorporated as a subsidiary of The Hong Kong Printers Association and supported by Vocational Training Council.

APTEC has an important role in acting as a technology transfer centre for the dissemination of latest technology to the local printing-related industries. By providing technical seminars, international conferences, training courses and consultancy services, APTEC aims to facilitate the migration of these companies from traditional workflow to digital workflow. In 2008, APTEC became the FIRST private training provider in printing and publishing industry successfully gone through the Initial Evaluation exercise by HKCAAVQ. It showed APTEC's qualification assurance and professionalism in training.

Since 2007, APTEC promoted printing standardization by becoming the exclusive partner of the US Idealliance and US Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Greater China to promote printing standardization. APTEC's staff has also become ISO TC130 expert, the Member of National Technical Committee 170 on Printing of Standardization Administration of China and the first batch of Fogra PSO partner qualification in Greater China.

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