2009 CTP Investment Cost Analysis
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In recent years, CTP technology has become a household name in China. On the one hand, in the face of increasing market competition and high-quality requirements and delivery time of customers, printing companies are introduced to introduce new equipment, new technologies and new processes to reduce costs and improve efficiency, and introduce CTP systems. On the other hand, there are still some concerns about CTP investment in printing companies: Can the change in the plate making process really reduce costs? Can the efficiency of the entire printing process really improve? Can print quality really improve? Below we will combine these data to answer these questions.
In order to replace the CTF into the printing plant, CTP technology must first consider the return on investment. The return on investment of CTP consists of three parts: labor savings, consumables savings, and reduced printing costs. Compared with the traditional CTF process, the CTP process has no advantage in terms of return on investment. We may wish to look down.
labor cost
After the introduction of the CTP system, printing companies can streamline the number of people in the manual imposition group. The number of streamlined users may be as many as several dozen, so the labor cost saved in one year can be as high as tens of thousands or even nearly 100,000 yuan, especially in the country. After the implementation of the new Labor Contract Law, the new costs due to labor security have increasingly become an important factor in the increase of corporate costs. Controlling labor costs and improving corporate efficiency are worthy of consideration by every printing company.
Consumable cost
CTP technology can reduce pre-press operations, so the reduction in consumables costs is also significant. Below we enumerate the consumables and quotations actually used in production for cost accounting, and compare the actual costs of the two processes of CTP and CTF.
It can be seen that the cost of consumables for CTP is always lower than that of traditional CTF processes. The international crude oil price rose to 150 US dollars per barrel in the previous period, which brought a lot of pressure to the oil-dependent film producers. In view of the fact that the profit margin of the traditional PS version is close to zero, many PS manufacturers are considering turning to research and development. Production of CTP plates, due to the withdrawal of manufacturers, the supply of traditional PS plates will gradually decrease, which will inevitably drive the increase in the price of CTF process consumables. At present, more and more domestic manufacturers are focusing on R&D and production of CTP plates and equipment, and some of them have reached the international level.
At the All-India exhibition in Shanghai, I have seen nearly 10 CTP producers, such as Chengdu Xintu, Honghuanglan Aluminum, Hebei Longma Aluminum, Beijing Huarui Jingyi, etc., which have established a foothold in Europe and Australia. Up-and-coming star. The rise of domestic CTP plate manufacturers is bound to drive the full competition of the CTP market, and the room for price decline is worth looking forward to.
Printing cost
The production process of CTP plate material has been greatly improved and improved on the basis of the traditional PS plate. The performance of the photosensitive adhesive is more stable, the sand of the base is more refined, and the more sandblasting the photosensitive adhesive per unit area, the plate can Reproduces a higher number of screen lines, and the printing durability is also greatly improved, thereby reducing the cost of consumables and time due to patching. In addition, the ink balance performance of the CTP plate is also much better than the traditional PS plate. Under the premise of ensuring the printing quality, the CTP dampening solution can be relatively less, generally saving 40% of water, and the ink-and-water balance is fast enough to make the preparation time before printing. And the paper has been reduced accordingly.
Let's take a 10,000-print job as an example. The traditional PS version takes at least one and a half hours to complete the printing. The registration and coloring work before the CTP official printing can be completed in 5 minutes. The printing task of 10,000 marks is only It takes an hour to complete, resulting in a print of up to 16 sets of 10,000 printed jobs using the traditional PS version and 24 sets using the CTP version. If you change to a fast-printing business, you can complete 60 sets of printing tasks in one day. This is the efficiency that CTP technology brings to printing companies.
In terms of paper, we calculate the paper saved in the registration and coloring process by 30 sheets/set. If 157g/m2 coated paper is used for printing, the amount of paper saved in one day will be as much as 300 yuan, one month. The saved paper will be close to 10,000 yuan, and if it is a fast printing enterprise, it can save 30,000 to 40,000 yuan in paper cost in one month.
Long-term interest
CTP technology has been widely used in Europe and the United States. The pioneers of foreign printing technology are constantly proposing new theories to maximize the advantages of CTP technology. The most famous one is CIP3/4 technology. With the foundation of CTP digital plate making, people It has the ability to conduct convenient and effective management in the production mode of balance, balance and mixed variables in the contradiction, and improve printing quality and production efficiency. Whether it's color management, CIP3/4 technology, or remote proofing, printing, and high-fidelity seven-color printing and art reproduction, the frontiers of printing technology, as long as you have CTP equipment, everything can become a reality, and this It is the embodiment of the market competitiveness of CTP technology.
In China, there are still quite a few printing companies that don't know much about CTP technology. They think that CTP technology is CTP equipment and CTP plate material. This should cause enough domestic CTP suppliers to pay more attention to them, and suppliers will increase their digitalization in modern times. Investing in pre-press technology knowledge and education, increasing the promotion of CTP technology knowledge market investment, and strengthening cooperation among suppliers to provide printing companies with digital prepress environment, CTP plates and equipment, digital workflow and A complete CTP system solution supported by process improvement related technologies.
At present, China's printing industry is facing three-way pressure, that is, rising raw material costs, rising labor costs, and appreciation of the renminbi. China's printing industry has come to a critical moment of calming down and thinking about how to “reduce costs and improve efficiency.” It has been used for ten years of traditional CTF. The printing method has become more and more unable to meet the market demand in the new era, and the successful application cases and sufficient data of CTP technology prove the strong advantage of CTP in “reducing cost and improving efficiency”.