The copy desk, also known as the through writing desk, is a professional tool for making comics and animations. It is mainly composed of a light box covered with a piece of ground glass or acrylic board. In the early days, the copy desk was mostly inlaid with a piece of glass on the wooden table panel, with candles and oil lamps as the main light source. Later, someone changed the light source into incandescent lamp, which is the embryonic form of the early copy desk. The real sense of the copy desk appeared in the 1950s, and the wooden box structure copy desk began to appear. Compared with the early copy desk, its practicability has been greatly improved.
It has been more than 60 years since the birth of the first copy desk. In the early days, most of the copy desk was inlaid with a piece of glass on the wooden table, with candles and oil lamps as the main light source. Later, someone changed the light source into incandescent lamp, which is the embryonic form of the early copy desk. In the real sense, the copy table appeared in the 1950s. The copy table with wooden box structure began to appear. Compared with the early copy table, its practicability was greatly improved, and it can be used portable. At this time, the copy table was not produced by professional manufacturers, and most of them were processed by users looking for carpenters, But it was a very professional instrument at that time. Since the 1970s, with the emergence and popularity of animation, the number of employees has increased, and copy stations have gradually become commercial manufacturing. Because the market demand is not very large, most of the manufacturers of copy stations are small manual enterprises, or wooden copy stations. With the appearance of fluorescent lamp, the light source of copy station has been replaced by fluorescent lamp with low heating and high luminous efficiency. Up to now, the wooden copy desk is mainly composed of fluorescent lamp, wooden box and glass. The real development of the copy table is that after 90 years, Japan took the lead in introducing a lighter metal copy table, with qualitative changes in shape and weight, more convenient to carry, and the panel material also adopts a more uniform and excellent milky acrylic plate. By the end of the 1990s, with the improvement of our country's attention to the animation industry, a large number of animation organizations have sprung up all over the country, the manufacturers of animation equipment have also begun to appear, and the copy desk has also begun to appear relatively light aluminum alloy copy desk and led ultra-thin copy desk, which have a leap forward development in terms of performance and practicability.