Digital Packaging Printing (I)

At present, in the packaging market, several important development trends are causing changes in the prepress process: First, the consumer market is becoming increasingly fierce, and rapidly changing consumer goods are constantly competing for their own development space. Therefore, manufacturers change their packaging designs more frequently in order to grasp the market initiative. The design cycle has been shortened to several days, and the production cycle of packaging products has also become shorter and shorter. Second, with the continuous innovation of materials science, printing technology and production technology, it has also brought about advances in the development of production tools and processes. Inevitably, digital printing schemes will gradually enter the packaging market gradually, not only to gain profits, but also to meet the needs of globalization.

If we are to meet these requirements, we will have to transform the existing packaging prepress production process and introduce a digital packaging process. Although the digital process for the packaging of goods and labels has been proposed for a long time, in the printing industry, all aspects of prepress processing and printing production are just beginning to get rid of traditional analog processing methods.

Although digital packaging may be in its infancy, many people believe that the packaging industry will soon realize digital-to-production operations. In the past two years, great changes have taken place in the international and domestic packaging industry, and the technology is improving day by day. The time for the packaging industry to achieve digital-to-business operations has also matured.

Take box-type imposition as an example. At present, most printers of the packaging label are still manually copying the film. For more spot color packaging labels, it may take a full day. If digital ratio processing is used, it only takes about tens of minutes to complete.

In the production process, manufacturers should not only pay attention to the exterior of the packaging. In reality, there are parallel processes between the end customer and the designer, such as box-type structural design, die-cutting and other follow-up processes.

Packaging designers very much hope to work in such an integrated environment. The system can achieve a perfect combination of box structure and image, and has screen 3D preview. In the printing process, packaging printers not only consider single labels and packaging, but also take into account the layout problem of the same or different designs.

Digital technology can speed up the packaging design and production process, shorten the time for the product to the market, which is a great competitive advantage for companies that produce consumer products. This has been the consensus of the packaging industry.

Founder packaging, trademark prepress production system function points:

If a worker wants to do good, he must first sharpen his tools.

Peking Founder launched the digital prepress production system in 1998. This is China's first professional packaging design system based on the Chinese platform. For an open, friendly, interactive and easy-to-use interface, it forms a digital work platform for prepress production. At the same time, according to the structural characteristics of the box type, it provides flexible and convenient box-type design tools, as well as the most complete box-type database of the current collection box types in China, which can be more convenient, high-quality, high-precision to complete the box-type structural design . Box type imposition can be performed interactively on the screen, and print and die cut can be generated as needed. In terms of communication, the system provides a screen box type 3D effect map, which allows designers to conceive products and communicate with users, saves the cost of box proofing for manufacturers, and comprehensively improves the production efficiency of packaging production and the accuracy of manual control of packaging production quality. Sex.

A more complete digital prepress solution

Box-type structure technology is an integral part of the pre-press packaging process. With this as the core, the prepress solution for the Founder e-Pack digital packaging trademark is implemented in four phases. During the implementation of the plan, a brand-new open work order format, JDF, will be adopted. It is a set of electronic work order formats that can be flexibly expanded based on the Internet, and can effectively form the “islands” of the packaging and printing process. Throughout, it constitutes a smooth digital packaging complete process.

The use of digital processes overcomes the cartons, cartons, and merchandise labels that exist within the company, such as designing, printing and packaging systems, and branding systems used to make all kinds of goods. The system includes box-type structure design, box-type screen 3D proofing, box-type imposition, accompany printing and other functions. The system mentions obstacles between sales channels and improves the connection with external partners. Designers, engineers, suppliers, manufacturers, and other manufacturers use the Internet as a means of forming a tighter work team, and thus reduced the period from design to molding by more than half. Through the use of computer-aided design (CAD) technology, including box-types, other processes in the paper packaging industry have also been significantly improved. Designers use CAD's 3D model capabilities to create boxes without the need for hand-made models. The designer checks whether the various parts can be combined effectively, and at the same time does not need to make some special tools to change part of the design. It is worth noting that the digital ratio has reduced the error rate in box delivery by 30%, shortening the production time of each box type from hours to minutes.