ASPT Member Biography
Targian Tan
Inducted into the Academy in 2008
Targian Tan started his business in the early 1970s, with headquarter in Jakarta and several branch offices in other cities in Indonesia. Two new companies were then developed in Vietnam and China in beginning 90s.
Since 1980, he had been successfully made good vocabularies and translation for screen printing techniques and Pad Printing into Indonesian language and also Chinese, including the analyzed programs in screen fabric, stencil making, ink and printing. Lots of glossaries in screen printing industries and guidance of usage equipments or tools in Indonesian and Chinese languages become a major standard documentation.
Mr. Tan is also qualified in those simplified Chinese characters which used in Mainland China and Singapore, and the traditional Chinese which dominated in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and other regions. Technical and product information translated has been widely used in various training institutions and screen printers.
Holding the Sole Distributorship of Screen Printing Materials and Equipments, he maintains very good relationship and partnership with all the Principals. Since 1990, he encouraged new technologies of screen printing through seminars, technical training, workshops on screen meshes, inks, emulsions, substrates, spread out in many cities in Indonesia, China and Vietnam.
Active in screen printing industry for almost 35years, Mr.Tan has made huge contributions in four color halftone printing for poster printing, modern “Batik motif” textile printing in Indonesia. In 1989, he introduced screen printing into traditional Batik wax printings in Central Java and Fine Art Printing in Bali. These two industries are the most dominant segments in screen printing industries in Indonesia.
At present, Mr.Tan is still active as an Executive Committee Member in ASGA (Asia Screen Printing and Graphic Imaging Association) and a member of SGIA since 1971.
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