In recent years, the global packaging and printing industry is constantly advancing, and the market size is constantly increasing. In China, more and more packaging and printing companies have reached the scale of hundreds of millions and billions, and many commercial printing plants have begun to contact more and more packaging customers, hoping to obtain a certain share of the packaging business and earn for the company More profits. As the strength of packaging and printing companies increases and market competition intensifies, how to win in the market is a problem for packaging and printing companies. Introducing new technologies and new processes, strengthening enterprise standardization, standardization, and digitalization, and strengthening the core competition of enterprises Force is the only way.
CTP equipment has entered the Chinese market for 14 years as a new technology to replace imagesetters. Compared with traditional output films, CTP systems can bring efficiency improvements to packaging companies and eliminate the repairs caused by traditional film printing to packaging plants. Dirty problems, improve quality, save the cost of offset paper, environmental protection advantages and many other benefits. Especially since 2004, the CTP plate material has dropped by about 10 yuan per year. At the same time, domestic plate material manufacturers have launched their own CTP plate materials and imported phototypesetting machines have ceased production. The output center has begun to update the phototypesetting machine equipment. Market The above traces indicate that the era of phototypesetting has come to an end, and the era of CTP has come to an end.
During the more than ten years of CTP's entry into China, the companies that introduced CTP were firstly quality printing companies that focus on quality, or printing companies with foreign orders, and then business printing companies that focused on efficiency. Characteristics, the introduction of CTP system has always been a slow process, but as mentioned above, the advent of the CTP era has caused packaging companies to start choosing CTP systems, so they need to face the CTP process changes and need to solve the problem of transition from CTF to CTP process. And the complicated production process problems during the coexistence of CTF and CTP. Because packaging printing and commercial printing have different concerns about color reproduction, packaging printing is more concerned with the consistency of colors, making it more complicated than commercial printing to successfully apply the CTP system to packaging and printing companies. The process is more difficult to implement. In general, the following key issues should be solved:
1. Solve the color consistency problem in the era of CTP process
From the perspective of business, packaging and printing enterprises have the characteristics of large batches, large amounts of reprinting and reversing work; from the perspective of packaging design, the characteristics of coexistence of spot color and four-color image design; therefore, customers of packaging companies generally do not The color reproduction of commercial prints (such as exquisite albums) will be used as the standard for the acceptance of packaging prints, but the color of packaging prints will be controlled by spot color chromatography, finished proofs, proofing proofs, etc. The color difference control is very strict, which means that the consistency of color is one of the most important acceptance indicators of customers for packaging and printing.
The color consistency of the packaging printed matter is divided into the color consistency of the follow-up sample, the color consistency of the same batch of jobs, and the color consistency of different batches of printed matter.
In the CTF era, the use of film, although the film has scratches, wrinkles, knife marks, tape printing and other problems, but also because of the quality of the film in the printing process trachoma, dust, static electricity, hidden risks, but the film process for more than ten years The process of running together has formed a complete set of methods and strategies to solve the color consistency of printed packaging.
If packaging companies choose the CTP system, they must first consider the complex color consistency of packaging and printing. For the same batch and different batches of packaging products to achieve the same color consistency, first of all must ensure that the CTP system at different times ( For example, one day, one month, one year) The percentage of published outlets is within ± 1. The characteristics of the CTP system itself determine that its publication stability is much higher than that of CTF. Three aspects of protection are required. First, the stability of the CTP exposure part (such as the energy automatic calibration system of the photopolymerization CTP device); second, the stability of the rinse part (such as the super long developer replacement time of the photopolymerization plate, and passing the PH value It can easily control the stability of the washing process, etc.); Finally, the simple and effective means of plate quality inspection and control, the quality is not produced, but controlled, and needs to be supported by the system provider ’s service The business features establish a set of standards and specifications for the CTP system.
2. Solve the problem of process matching during the coexistence of CTP process and CTF process
The difference between packaging and printing companies and commercial printing companies is that packaging companies have accumulated a large number of films and samples signed by customers in the long-term production process. The customer's request is that the printing companies should follow the signed samples of finished products without Concerned about the specific process used by printing companies. Therefore, if you want to fully transition from CTF process to CTP process, compared with commercial printing companies, there will be a longer transition period, in other words, packaging companies will be in a longer period of time There will be a period when CTP and CTF coexist.
Process matching is the core of packaging companies to make good use of CTP. Process matching specifically includes the following four aspects.
· The matching of CTP and CTF two processes, as mentioned above, CTP and CTF will coexist in packaging companies for a long period of time. The matching of these two processes is the prerequisite for packaging companies to make good use of CTP.
· The process of multiple offset printing equipment in the enterprise is matched. Generally, packaging and printing enterprises have multiple printing equipment. In the CTP era, the packaging industry can only achieve the consistency of multiple equipment printing in order to truly play the fine tone control of CTP. specialty.
· Process matching between mass production and sample production status. From the perspective of the current packaging production process, customers of packaging printed products usually require physical samples to be confirmed and sealed to form a physical standard sample before mass production.
· The company has accumulated a large number of customer signatures printed by the CTF process. How to successfully convert these jobs to the CTP process for printing is the key for the packaging company to fully adopt the CTP system.
Through the analysis of the connotation of process matching, it is known that the core of solving the problem of CTP and CTF process matching in packaging companies is not the CTP system technology itself, but the need to provide special services through manufacturers to solve the problem of process matching and solve the problem of packaging companies using CTP well. problem.
Founder aimed at the current status of process matching in packaging companies, integrating Founder ’s unique Yi Cai service in the plan. From the perspective of the whole process, for the two processes of CTP and CTF, through professional services, it aims to solve the complex and changeable process matching problem. Founder has a high-quality process research and service implementation team of up to 20 people. The main purpose of the team is to assist printing companies to solve various printing process problems. The team members have many years of experience in printing operation and control. Packaging and printing companies implemented CTP system process services. [next]
3. Solve the application problems of color management in packaging enterprises
The CTP process has brought about a revolution in proofing technology. Traditional proofing technology is no longer suitable for CTP's digital workflow. Digital proofing is an important application of full-process color management. Color management technology has successfully turned the psychological attribute of color into a definable, measurable, and controllable attribute. However, the complexity of color management technology, the diversity of printing environments, and the lack of knowledge of color management in operation Sex, making the successful application of digital proofing has been trapping printing companies.
Color management must follow a series of prescribed operating procedures in order to achieve the desired effect. There are three elements in the color management process, referred to as "3C", that is, correction-characterization-conversion. In addition to the corresponding software and hardware, the above process is based on service. The service content is not only a calibration process, but also a process of imparting color management knowledge and cultivating the ability of the enterprise to constantly improve its own color management.
4. Special needs solved
The first step in the production process of a packaging and printing company is to produce a single file that meets the production process requirements of the enterprise. First, the customer files need to be sorted according to the company's production process requirements, and the customer files are checked for thin lines that cannot be printed and cannot be printed. Small dirty spots, special effects objects that are prone to typographical errors, RGB images, the use of TrueType fonts, the use of low-resolution images, etc. The second is the need for professional trapping processing of customer files, including automatic trapping, interactive trapping adjustment, rich black and white background functions, etc., and these objects can be quickly found and displayed on the screen, which can be easily to modify.
Legend: Making a single file
The second step of the production process of packaging and printing enterprises is to make a large version of a single file. There are two schemes for general packaging layout. If the CAD layout file is already prepared, the large format (including the box) can be automatically assembled according to this CFF2 file. Type number, bleeding adjustment, etc.); if there is no CAD imposition file, you need to perform the imposition function for a single small version file, and complete the imposition function by interactively setting the parameters such as the distance between the two boxes
Legend: Make a large version of a single file
5. Founder Packaging CTP Solution
Fang is in the market and service of the printing industry for nearly 30 years, and has become the manufacturer with the deepest understanding of the domestic printing industry, fully understanding the needs of Chinese packaging users. The domestic printing market presents a variety of complexities. What Chinese packaging customers really need are high-quality, high-stability, and CTP products with strong competitiveness in terms of comprehensive use cost. Founder Diaolong CTP combines a number of excellent purple laser CTP manufacturing technologies in one, using the high-precision and high-stability inner drum structure that has been recognized in the era of imagesetter, the inner drum using high-precision materials, precise and controllable laser imaging technology, The laser energy automatic calibration technology and the man-machine dialogue LCD screen operation interface can fully guarantee the high-precision and high-stability CTP plate making; at the same time, the purple laser laser with a service life of 8-10 years has high stability and supports many The technology of photopolymerization plate material and chemical treatment-free plate material, which can directly print UV ink without baking plate, only need to change the chemical solution every 3000 square meters, etc., has improved the stability of CTP system application.
Founder Diaolong CTP is the perfect combination of quality, cost, and efficiency. Since its release, it has received widespread attention in the industry. It has performed well among 18 CTP brand manufacturers in the domestic market. It achieved sales of 96 units in the first year of entering the market. In the "China" ranking, it achieved the second-ranked single-brand CTP sales, accounting for 22% of the annual increase of 429 units in the year, rewriting the 2008 CTP market pattern. Founder Diaolong is currently installed at the production sites of 150 companies across the country, and is shouldering a heavy responsibility in the production of more and more printing companies!
Founder Diaolong CTP seamlessly connects with Founder Easyflow JDF / PDF Chinese workflow, which has been successfully applied by more than 1,000 domestic customers, and has been highly recognized and valued by the industry. The overall packaging CTP solution is for the pursuit of high-quality printing quality, the pursuit of CTP application stability, the pursuit of relying on CTP to realize the digitization and standardization of the printing process, the pursuit of reducing and controlling the comprehensive cost of CTP applications, and the pursuit of excellence in comprehensive cost performance Tailor-made for your packaging and printing company! The Founder Packaging CTP solution will help packaging and printing companies to apply the CTP process faster, more smoothly, and more widely!
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