The work aims to summarize the development history and research status of intelligent printing equipment and provide a strategic reference for the development of intelligent printing equipment. Through the literature review method, the development history of prepress, printing and post-press equipment was reviewed. The application and research status of intelligent printing equipment at home and abroad were summarized. A three-step strategy of intelligent printing development was proposed, which was “standard first, solid foundation, data driven, integrated development, model innovation and demonstration leading”. The current development of intelligent printing equipment was relatively slow, and there were generally few researches related to it. Intelligent printing was still in the initial stage of intelligent manufacturing -the digital stage. Formulating an intelligent printing standard system, accelerating the digitization and networking of intelligent printing equipment, and implementing measures such as intelligent printing factories and printing cloud factories can effectively promote the orderly development of intelligent printing.