The invention discloses a waste heat recovery and hot air type energy-saving drying control system. The waste heat recovery and hot air type energy-saving drying control system comprises a drying oven exhaust fan (12), an exhaust air valve (21), an axial flow fan (19), a compressor (2), a heat exchanger A (1), a heat exchanger C (3) and a computer control center (14); the heat exchanger A (1) absorbs the heat energy (10) of harmful waste gas (16) exhausted by an air outlet (15) of a drying oven (11), and the heat energy (10) and the heat Z (23) generated by the compressor (2) act on the heat exchanger C (3) and then are conveyed into an air inlet (6) of the drying oven (11). According to the system, the basic heat is provided according to the Carnot principle, the COP is higher than 3.0, the heat recovered from the harmful waste gas is accumulated, the heating efficiency is greatly improved, and the energy is saved; according to the technological conditions of photogravure presses, compound machines and coating machines, the speed of an air inlet fan, the speed of the exhaust fan, the speed of the compressor for heat exchange and the angle of the exhaust air valve are adjusted in a stepless speed adjsutment mode for reducing unnecessary loss of hot air, and the harmful gas is compressed for preparing for harmful gas recovery in the second step.