Summary of the three major packaging printing technology trends

With the rapid development of science and technology, packaging and printing technology has been continuously combined with emerging technologies and edge disciplines to innovate and make breakthroughs in strategic high-tech fields. Many new technologies have emerged, such as electrostatic printing, inkjet printing, and digital printing technology. . At the same time, various electronic media technologies have developed rapidly. A variety of new technologies represented by electronic technology, computer technology, and intelligent materials have been adopted in pre-press information processing, printing, and post-processing, which has brought packaging and printing to a new high-tech situation.

Marketization of modern packaging design

Just as the steam engine invented in the early 18th century drove the industrial revolution and changed the history of mankind, the changes brought by computers and networks in the late 20th and early 21st centuries were even more breathtaking. As we all know, before the 1970s, it was the era of productivity, and there was a market for the production of products; the 1980s was the era of sales power, and sales methods became the main link of market competition; .

The computer desktop design system has quietly entered the field of packaging and printing. It exceeds the imagination of the human brain and the expressive power of the hand, creating a new vision in packaging. The application of product anti-counterfeiting technology, holographic technology, etc. in packaging and printing has become an ideal means to improve product quality and promote sales.

Modern packaging design has entered an era where the scope is extremely wide and the production process is much more complicated than before. Elements such as technology, environmental protection, market demand and experience, customer psychology, corporate image, process control, cultural trends, etc., are often combined into design products. The impression of packaging design is far more than the number of other forms of spreading impressions.

In the context of high technology, the integration of printing and packaging is an inevitable trend in the printing and packaging market, because the integration of printing and packaging not only serves the interests of customers, but also will become the basis of a global electronic transmission printing and packaging network, and the information highway of the 21st century Synthesize the perfect printing and packaging for tomorrow. The mark of the integration of printing and packaging is a digital printing method with no film and no version, connected to an electronic prepress processing system, a wide area network system and an online binding box system, color, and short version printing processing. Ways to meet the needs of the market.

Packaging printing process tends to be simplified

The application of modern technology in the field of packaging and printing has simplified many packaging and printing processes and is more scientific and reasonable. For example, in the past, plastic packaging extrusion, hot pressing, stamping and other forming processes have been gradually used in the formation of cardboard packaging, so that products that could not be wrapped in paper in the past also used paper packaging.

The post-printing process of packaging is more scientific and practical, and the packaging performance and effects have changed significantly. For example, in the past, the wax coating and film coating process in packaging surface treatment has been gradually replaced by surface glue (spraying treatment), and the anti-counterfeiting packaging manufacturing process has shifted from local printing or manufacturing to overall large-area printing and manufacturing anti-counterfeiting. At present, the pre-press and post-press technology of packaging and printing uses computer technology, the new equipment completes the upgrade of production factors, and the innovation of post-press processing technology, so that the post-press processing field forms a new industrial structure of the packaging and printing industry, the connotation of product structure adjustment and business behavior.

The development of paper packaging printing technology will have the following new features: single-layer materials are developing in the direction of multi-layer materials; offset printing, gravure printing, flexo printing, screen printing and other printing methods coexist and flexographic printing will grow fastest; single-sheet paper Develop towards web and stand-alone production; comprehensive application of various related new technologies (such as computer design, digital technology, laser processing technology and new materials, etc.) continuously optimize the entire production system.

The development trend of paper packaging containers is: one-time molded paper containers will gradually replace the current die-cut combined paper containers; deep coating technology gradually replaces the past wax coating; composite technology has become an important skill in the development of paper containers; CAD and CAM systems Will greatly shorten the design and manufacturing cycle of paper packaging containers. In addition, paper product packaging focuses on the development of high-end paper packaging with low grammage, high reinforcement, and light weight to achieve the goals of standardization, serialization, multiple varieties, multiple substrates, and multiple uses.

Intelligent packaging and printing machinery

The packaging industry has always been an industry that absorbs and applies high and new technologies. Once some new technologies and new processes are breakthrough, they will be applied and maintained in the packaging field, which in turn will promote their further improvement and continuous innovation. In the future, the competition in the market is more of a technological competition. To this end, packaging design, packaging printing, packaging technology, packaging machinery, carton packaging and other aspects of the technology are dependent on further study and reasonable and full use.

China's packaging and printing machinery industry will develop towards electromechanization, intelligence, and automatic control. The future of packaging machinery is a high degree of integration of various high-tech, new functions and new control methods. The technical characteristics of future packaging machinery will tend to "three highs", namely high speed, high efficiency and high quality. New technologies used in future packaging machinery packaging microwave, aerospace industry (thermal control bags), microelectronics (control tables), information processing, sensing (photoelectric and chemical), laser (cutting, anti-counterfeiting), magnetic, nano, biological Etc., these technologies make many packaging machinery tend to be intelligent.

In the next decade, packaging and printing equipment will be digitalized and miniaturized, and the cost will tend to be low. Data printing, optical fiber and microwave will inevitably replace traditional transmission systems. The digital printing machine will make the traditional process develop in the direction of rationalization and labor saving. The combination of digital printing technology and network technology will completely change the traditional printing production mode. A new production method based on "digital process + digital media / high-density storage + network transmission" will be born. It can also be said that traditional packaging printing is the production mode of "re-sale after production", while digital printing is the production mode of "re-production after sale".