International label printing technology applications and trends
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The label printing industry has entered a period of steady growth in Europe and the United States, and the updating and improvement of label printing technology in these regions has attracted the attention of the global label industry. What new technology trends are there in the international label printing industry today? Which technologies will be more favored by enterprises? Recently, on this topic, Tan Junyi, senior consultant of China Printing and Equipment Industry Association, accepted an interview with the reporter of China News Publishing. Combined with the new technology unveiled at the latest European International Label Printing Exhibition, Tan Junyi analyzed the application and trends of new technologies in the international label printing industry.
Trend 1 Digital Label Printing Highlights Advantages
In the field of label printing, a more obvious change is to increase the emphasis on digital technology.
Tan Junxi introduced that the first digital label printing exhibition hall held at the Labelexpo in 2009 was in line with the development trend of digital printing technology.
Tan Junxi said that from the printing cost, it is more reasonable to use digital printing below 4000 meters (speed is 30 meters / minute), and traditional printing is better than 4000 meters (speed is 16 meters / minute). Take HP's digital press as an example. There are currently more than 5,000 HPIndigows 4500 digital presses in use worldwide. Among them, there are more than 1,000 in Europe and more than 20 in China. After comparison, the advantages of digital printing are odorless, reduced waste, shortened plate changing time and preparation time.
At the International Printing and Labeling Exhibition in Europe, a number of digital label printing equipment for short and medium-sized jobs were unveiled. For example, HP's HP Indigows 6000 digital press. The machine offers a cost-effective mid-label and package printing solution, with the overall cost of printing less than 4,000 meters of work significantly lower than the cost of using traditional technology. In addition, compared to traditional printing, the digital press is more efficient and time-saving in terms of ready process, setup and platemaking. Xeikon's Xeikon 3300 digital press is also ideal for mid-short and instant job production at a speed of 19.2 m/min and a monthly production of approximately 750,000 meters. It also has thermal transfer and on-demand. Printing and personalized label printing and other functions.
Trend 2 Digital printers are the main tools for labeling companies
How do European label printing companies react to digital label printers? It is understood that the British CS label company (CSLabels) began to enter the digital production field two and a half years ago, the company's general manager Simon Smith (SimonSmith) believe that their choice is very correct, currently 60% of their business is Produced on digital presses, although flexographic presses and screen printing equipment are equally important, digital presses have become their primary production system.
The British company HineLabels also tasted the sweetness of using digital presses. Bill Hine, the company's general manager, said that digital presses can bring them faster production cycles, and customers usually don't interfere with the company's choice of production process. What they want is in the shortest possible time. Get the highest quality, most stable color label. It can be seen that as printing equipment manufacturers continue to improve the performance of digital devices for label printing, label printing companies are increasingly using digital technology.
Trend 3 Digital inkjet combined with traditional technology
Tan Junxi believes that digital inkjet printing technology has made great progress in the field of label printing and is also a trend worthy of attention in the industry.
First of all, this shows that the accuracy and speed of the inkjet system have been improved. Even the speed of the new inkjet system can reach 150 m/min. The inkjet system is also converted from the original UV ink to the UV ink and the conventional ink. Can be used, greatly improving the user's selectivity. Second, digital inkjet systems are combined with traditional label printers to make the combination of traditional printing and variable information printing a reality.
According to reports, Denmark's Nilpeter has produced a UV-flexo machine integrated digital inkjet printer. In addition to its laser printing technology, it also has a digital inkjet unit that uses UV curable inks to print brochures or print single-sided full-color labels with variable data. The machine can also run one or more UV flexo units when printing UV glazing, fixing and/or printing a white or black background on a transparent film.
Trend 4 label printing system features increased
From the perspective of packaging design, the current green packaging design suitable for environmental protection, packaging design suitable for highlighting individualized products, and packaging design with advanced anti-counterfeiting technology are the development trend of packaging design, and in order to adapt to this development trend Many label manufacturers have had to expand the range of containers and label materials. Therefore, having a high-precision and fully-featured labeling system is a key factor in the lead of these companies in packaging.
In line with this development trend, the self-adhesive label production solution provided by the well-known Canadian self-adhesive label equipment supplier ETI (Yudi) has received much attention from the market. The process is to print and re-coat silicon, sizing, compounding and molding. Cut, made into self-adhesive labels, this solution can not only reduce the average cost by 50%, but also can carry out double-sided printing, making labels for special processes such as multi-layer labels, water-washing labels, and bottomless paper labels, achieving process and cost. The best combination, and its biggest highlight is the saving of materials.
In addition, according to Tan Junxi, in order to prevent counterfeit and shoddy products, the European label production company has developed an integrated inspection and verification system specially designed for folding carton production, and can be easily integrated with other production lines. Some companies have also introduced an automatic quality inspection system that increases the speed of inspection. It also adds barcode comparison and variable information barcode detection modules to simultaneously detect constant print quality defects and variable barcodes on a single inspection system. Information defect.