Analysis and forecast of the development trend of future technology in the printing industry
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The network printing market has great potential
As far as network printing itself is concerned, it is not a new concept. However, after the integration of personalization and marketization elements, a new application field is born, and the marketing method has also changed. Why do you want to do network printing? Luo Jianliang believes that the most important thing is that the demand of market customers is gradually increasing, and more and more electronic networks like FTP are used in commercial applications. Luo Jianliang said that by 2010, all print job requirements will be shortened to less than 24 hours, so market demand is calling for a more innovative business model.
There are many successful cases of network printing in the world, such as: online book printing in Korea, commercial card printing in Singapore digital studio, product introduction printing of FedEx gold test and digital direct printing in Thailand. Winning a printing business, 70% of the printing companies rely on "quote before the competition." The advantage of networked printing is that it can add value to customers or customers' customers; reduce price-based competition, increase exchange fees and increase profits; and serve as an effective competitive response to reduce operating expenses.
So how do you find a solution that suits you? Luo Jianliang suggested: "First you need to define your business model; the second is to distinguish which ones are necessary and what is best. For example, software is a must; draw your workflow, Do a careful analysis and planning; apply the right technology; designate a qualified system manager; spend time and effort on evaluating and adjusting."
For the Chinese market, he believes that there are three points to pay attention to in network printing: first, what are the key steps to achieve successful network printing; second, what is the distance between digital printing and network printing; third, digital printing is now available. How do people change to web printing?
Use data to monitor costs and the environment
Today, as raw material costs continue to rise, printers are paying more attention to how to achieve the greatest savings in printing costs and the greatest improvement in print quality. So how do you reduce costs and protect the environment? Takahashi Takahiro gave the participants the experience of "the Golden Sheep Society that has been in Japan for more than 80 years."
Jinyangshe mainly manages and classifies the company's waste according to the inventory figures, and reduces the cost and environmental protection through these two aspects. “First, the position of the item is marked with the numbers 0 to 15. The item is taken from the largest number 15. For example, the minimum amount of ink must be guaranteed for three days. When the number is 4, it is exactly three days. For the stock quantity, you need to fill in the order card and then re-order the goods supplier to ensure that there is 3 days of stock. Other production materials are used for inventory management in this way, but the stocks guaranteed by different production materials. There are some differences in quantity."
In addition, various wastes generated continuously by the Jinyangshe factory are also being recycled. Jinyangshe reduced the organic solvent from 28 to 26 in 2005. In 2006, the organic solvent was reduced from 26 to 24. In 2007, the organic solvent was reduced from 24 to 10, and the organic solvent used so far has 10 And several organic solvents are being tested to achieve the goal of continuous reduction.
In order to reduce the cost and protect the environment while ensuring the printing quality, Jinyang Society implemented a “pyramid” management method, namely: standardization of materials – grasping the characteristics of printed materials; standardization of printing machines – grasping the daily operation process and early detection of bad conditions Data management of printed materials - correct understanding of the conditions of the printing environment; CMS color standards - regular maintenance and inspection of the printing press.
Takahashi Takahiro finally said that data management is not managed by data, but that data management and data changes are required.
Luo Jianliang, general manager of Fuji Xerox's Asia Pacific Graphic Arts Product System, believes that there are more and more electronic network methods similar to FTP in commercial applications. It is expected that by 2010, all print job requirements will be shortened to less than 24 hours.
CTCP is getting more and more attention
In recent years, the popularity of direct plate making technology (CTP and CTCP) has become an irresistible trend. They belong to the same technology of computer-to-plate technology, and the obvious difference is that the plates are different. For thermal CTP, the current market is very mature and stable, there are quite a few printing companies in use, and the number of uses is still expanding. For CTCP, due to the introduction of the market, so far, the usage rate is not as popular as CTP, but the degree of attention is getting higher and higher.
Liang Hongwei introduced the experience of the Chinese manufacturer's first use of CTCP. The first is the issue of the media. The printing plate is stable with the traditional exposure plate, but when the PS plate is placed on the CTCP machine, the speed is very slow, 8 to 10 sheets per hour; the flushed version is not clean. After comparison with the traditional PS version, it is found that the traditional PS version generally uses a traditional level of the drying machine to achieve 3 levels of whitening, and sometimes even requires 4 levels of whitening, and the CTCP laser power is not as good as the traditional printing machine, so CTCP In order to ensure the speed, the machine can only achieve level 1 whitening. But how to stabilize the level 1 whitening can not be dirty, the speed is fast? After they tried the Fuji PS version, the problem was solved, and 1% of the outlets were out, 99% of the outlets were not ambiguous, and the number was increased from 8 to 10 sheets per hour to 14 sheets.
Followed by the characteristics of the CTCP machine itself. In the case of Linear, 50% of the outlets can only be 47%~48%, because the system used CTP to make OneBit documents and send them to CTCP machine publishing, so that the G7 curves that have already been prepared cannot be directly published, and later in Linear. In the case of a version, a density meter is used to measure the data of each point, and then compare with the curve that has been completed, calculate the error value, and generate a new curve to issue the plate, so the effect is very good.
After CTCP was used again for more than a week, the speed gradually slowed down and the exposure unit was maintained every two weeks. After researching with CTCP engineers and Fuji engineers, a PS plate material for CTCP characteristics was produced, and the powder layer on the surface was removed to solve this problem. The publishing speed has increased to 18 sheets per hour.
Takahashi Takahiro, director of Japan's Golden Sheep Co., Ltd. believes that in management, data management is not an end, but a good means of ensuring print quality.
Environmental printing technology is the leading direction
What is waterless printing? It is offset printing without using fountain solution. Waterless printing uses silicone repellent ink instead of the traditional dampening solution to remove ink, which saves a lot of adjustment time and reduces the waste of overprint paper. Secondly, its unique flat-gravure construction also has a better performance in controlling the dot enlargement and the fineness of imaging. Since waterless printing reduces the generation of various waste liquids in printing, it has been advocated by environmental protection.
The new generation inkjet digital printing press JetPress720 is based on the integration of water-based ink material technology and print head technology. It basically achieves the quality similar to offset printing, and when the number of printed books is less than 2,000. Its production efficiency and cost are more effective than offset printing. In terms of production efficiency, the requirements for offset printing corresponding to short-run and short-term delivery are realized due to shortened publication time and no need for drying time. However, since the offset paper cannot be supported at the moment, there are some limitations in the work of the printed matter.
Liang Hongwei, the prepress manager of Dongguan Dalang Zhongbian Printing Factory of Hong Kong Zhongbian Group, believes that CTCP can achieve a resolution of 2400dpi, and the precision can reach the general basic requirements of printing, so it can meet the cost reduction requirements of printing companies.
The new era of original color printing
At present, the limitation of traditional printing in color is that the traditional four-color printing color gamut is relatively narrow, and the original tonal range cannot be completely reproduced. In addition, most of the design process is based on the RGB color gamut, and the traditional printing standard cannot be used. Meet the needs of customers.
How to achieve original color printing? Tian Junshan believes that the following conditions must be met: from prepress to printing to have effective color management and standardization of production environment; CTP and effective control using FMSCREEN printing to achieve high-density printing; understanding the color matching of ink and paper in the printing process, The most ideal concentration; with measurement tools, in addition to measuring density, also need to measure Lab/LCH/HSB spectrodensitometer and colorimeter; with ICCProfile software, such as PantoneHexachrom (6c), Hi-FiColor (7C) Multi-Color (Multicolor) Special color separation/production software. “When the thickness of the ink layer reaches a certain limit, the color of the ink begins to saturate and the density cannot rise any more. Therefore, to find the optimal concentration, the LCH value can be measured with a spectrodensitometer when testing. When the ink is deepened by shallow, just look at C. The chroma value is the largest, which is the optimal concentration."
Yu Tianqi, deputy director of the technology department of Fuji Xingguang Printing Equipment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., believes that in the future, printing companies will introduce and use two technologies: one is a new generation of inkjet digital printing machines, and the other is waterless printing.
Color management system saves ink
How to improve printability? Yan Wencheng proposed 10 countermeasures: further improve printing speed; reduce dusting during printing; reduce total ink coverage; reduce printing preparation time; reduce paper weight requirements; speed up ink drying; Overprinting; improving outlets; easy to control gray balance; taking into account environmental protection. He said that these benefits are actually what many printing companies dream of, but how to implement them, which methods or principles are used, the essence of which is achieved through the principle of UCR or GCR in CMS color management.
In 2007, Li & Fung Accor tested GMG's InkOptimizer, which calculates the amount of ink applied to the page by calculating the amount of color conversion from CMYK to CMYK, while also ensuring ink quality and improving printing conditions. Under the control of this system, the automatically reduced amount of color ink reduces the total amount of ink printed to more than 25%, while significantly reducing drying time and print job preparation time, thereby increasing productivity.
In 2007, Li & Funga conducted another test of similar products: CGS' ORISInkSaver. This is a color-managed UCR/GCR system that uses a unique algorithm to automatically reduce ink usage and apply it to linear and continuous-tuned image data. This software can vary depending on the amount of ink coverage on the original. The amount of ink is reduced by more than 20% while relatively reducing ink drying time, printing preparation time and reducing the requirement for paper weight.
In addition, the use of ORISInkSaver coupled with CIP3 PPF print data, printability has been greatly improved. In addition to improving ink overprinting and dot gain, printing preparation time has also been reduced by a quarter, and because of the faster drying of inks, the speed of printing presses has increased by nearly 10%.
According to reports, Lifeng Accor has tried to print 5 different types of books, the printing volume is between 10,000 and 30,000. The average data obtained is about 14% of the total ink saved, a rough estimate, monthly printing cost savings. More than 140,000 yuan, saving more than 1.5 million yuan a year.
Tian Junshan, Assistant General Manager of Hong Kong Guanghui Plate Making Co., Ltd. pointed out that with the development of CTP, FM screening and multi-color printing machines in recent years, the formation of the original color separation technology has been promoted.
Wide color gamut printing will be widely used
Wide color gamut printing is by far the printing method closest to the Adobe RGB color gamut in color gamut. There are currently two printing methods: one is six-color printing C+M+Y+K+O+G, and the other is seven-color printing C. +M+Y+K+R+G+B.
Qian Longsheng believes that the wide color gamut printing is produced first, in line with the needs of the development of the times, and secondly from the need to develop overseas business. Since the printing business of the current printing companies comes from different countries and regions, it is most appropriate to use the ink of the country or region where the customer is located. However, a wide variety of inks are very confusing in management and difficult to perform smoothly. In order to implement the most commonly used printing standards in the world such as ISO European Printing Standard, SWOP American Printing Standard and JapanColor Japanese Printing Standard, the wide color gamut printing problem is mentioned in the agenda. Come up.
Qianlongsheng said that four-color wide color gamut printing is the most effective. The reason why Yachang uses four-color wide color gamut printing is that one of the four colors can be used for amplitude modulation and FM network printing, and the six-color and seven-color printing are used to prevent the occurrence of moire. The second is the printing machine currently used by Yachang. The four-color and five-color machines are the main ones, which correspond exactly; the third is the display that can be used for soft proofing of the screen; the fourth is the Ink-Jet proofing. He said that with the successful development of VividMagenta, the inkjet proofer can reproduce a wide color gamut.
Yan Longsheng, senior technical consultant of Yachang Enterprise (Group) Co., Ltd. believes that with the popularization of original input by digital cameras and the widespread use of inkjet printers, with the construction of RGB digital workflow system, wide color gamut printing will be widely used. .
Yan Wencheng, a senior prepress manager at Lifeng Accor Dongguan, pointed out that cost has always been one of the most important factors for business managers. The means of reducing consumables and optimizing quality directly affect the survival and development of the company.
Under the current global economic downturn, rising costs, and extremely severe situation, the third-generation (international) printing technology high-end exchange meeting of the Japanese Fuji has brought surprises to industry users. The exchange meeting held in Shenzhen not long ago, because of its content positioning on how to reduce costs, improve efficiency, optimize quality, reduce risks, to enhance the company's competitive advantage and the comprehensive strength of the industry, has been enthusiastically sought after by many artists.
The number of participants in this high-end exchange of printing technology has more than doubled compared with the previous session, reaching nearly 300 people. The vice president of Fujifilm Co., Ltd. and Fujifilm (China) President Yokota Hiroshi gave an opening speech and introduced the company's global business. Fuji Xingguang Printing Equipment (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Assistant General Manager, Business Copy Minister, and General Manager of South China Region Wang Qing presided over the meeting. Senior technical experts from Yachang Group, SNP Lifeng Accor Dongguan, Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific, Hong Kong Brilliant Platemaking, Japan Golden Sheep Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Dalang Zhongbian Printing Factory, Fuji Xingguang Shanghai Company, etc. The speech has aroused great interest in the industry.