Trends in printing

Development Status

With the development of commodity economy and science and technology, printing processes such as, relief, and intaglio will continue to develop. Different printing processes have their own characteristics and applicable ranges, and they will coexist for a long time, complementing other, and occupy a place in packaging printing. [1]

1. Flat printing will continue to maintain its position as the main force. Flat printing has simple plate making light and convenient plate material, quick plate making, and can quickly produce large-format, high-quality, and accurate color printing products. It is especially suitable for printing products both text and images. In recent years, flat printing technology has been continuously integrated with new technologies such as optics, chemistry, and computer technology, reflecting the level of contemporary high technology

Packaging Printing

Packaging Printing

2. Relief printing technology will have a breakthrough. Relief printing is a traditional printing process in China, with a good technical, low investment, quick startup, and suitable for small batch, small format, and special specifications and varieties of packaging printing; it does not have strict requirements for paper and ink materials and can adjust the printing pressure and control the ink volume to a large extent, so that the printing quality can reach a relatively ideal degree, and the application range is wide.

3. Intaglio printing will continue to develop steadily. The advantage of intaglio printing has always been high speed, wide format, low consumption, and less downtime and it can obtain preferential printing products on various printing materials.

4. Screen printing will become more active. As a representative of the hole plate printing, screen printing always been mainly produced in the form of workshops in China, and it is considered that it can only produce linear, large color block products and can not be on the stage. In's era of great technological changes, modern screen printing equipment, materials, and processes have injected new vitality into the screen printing process.

With the rapid development of science technology, packaging printing technology is constantly combined with emerging technologies and interdisciplinary disciplines, and innovations and breakthroughs are made in strategic high-tech fields, and many new technologies have emerged such as electrostatic printing, inkjet printing, and digital printing technology. At the same time [2]   from the current trend of printing technology development, China's printing machine technology is rapidly developing towards highly automated, linked, intelligent, digital, networked, and multi-color multi-functional directions.

On the new type of printing equipment, cutting-edge technology has been widely applied, including computer remote control, automatic plate making, automatic register control of digital control, automatic fault monitoring and display, no shaft technology,o technology, ion spraying technology, optical fiber conduction technology, etc. For example, the application of harmonic transmission technology in printing machines has many advantages, such as multiple tooth engagement large transmission ratio, small size, light weight, large load capacity, high transmission efficiency, and stable transmission rate, which is conducive to improving the speed and working accuracy of machines, and making the printing production efficiency and the quality of printed products get better.

Development Trends

1. The development direction of flat printing technology

The flat printing topics in the world today include direct plate making technology, direct printing technology, no level printing technology, and frequency modulation dotting technology. Most foreign single-sheet multicolor offset printing machines have adopted ink color remote control, automatic plate making, and automatic register devices, and the whole production process is controlled and fault diagnosed. The domestic start is relatively, and more efforts are needed in the research and development of a new generation of integrated multi-color offset printing machines. In addition, the quality of domestic printing supplies (paper,, photosensitive materials, rubber blankets) also has