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From November 1 to 4, the 9th China International All India Exhibition was successfully held in Shanghai New International Expo Center, which is the largest printing and packaging industry exhibition in China after three years of epidemic. The four-day exhibition left a deep impression on the visitors: first, the exhibitors carefully arranged to show the visitors new technologies and services; Second, the number of visitors is large, especially the number of foreign visitors has increased significantly; Third, the organizers arranged the venue and all kinds of meetings in good order, so that visitors can learn new knowledge and feel at home; Fourth, the spirit and enthusiasm of the visitors are rare in recent years. purchase

China International Full Print Exhibition is a comprehensive printing and packaging exhibition, involving book printing and packaging printing, and packaging printing is divided into flexible packaging, paper packaging and label printing. This year's full print exhibition, label printing exhibitors are mainly distributed in the label complex and digital printing hall green printing, the exhibition technology includes digital printing, mixed printing, combination printing, flexographic printing, offset printing, letterpress printing and post-press processing. This exhibition, the organizer visited some well-known suppliers in the form of "big coffee exhibition", the author in accordance with the order of the exhibition to introduce the new technologies, new processes, new ideas and new dynamics brought by these suppliers, and make predictions about the future development of the label printing industry. exhibition

Visit key exhibitors to learn about new changes in the label market

1. Medium print ticket certificate printing

In this exhibition, Dazu Guanhua, Zhongjing Printing machine launched a JDSC 420 beyond series combination flagship printing machine on the basis of the original equipment and demonstrated on the spot. Under the high-speed operation of 150m/min, the equipment can realize the combination of rubber and flexible printing, and the process and process cooperation have reached a very high level, and it can even be said that the quality and level of the international label award can be reached. Print detection

Zhongjing Printing Machine is an old state-owned enterprise with decades of technical accumulation, and is the earliest supplier of sheet-fed offset presses. They combine the advantages of familiar offset technology with the newly developed flexographic technology government policies and supervision, through the combination of offset printing and flexographic printing process, the offset printing high-resolution color graphics with the flexographic large-area reverse glazing process, as well as metallized materials cleverly combined, printing a beautiful large-area label. The exquisite labels printed at the booth of Zhongjing Printing machine attracted a large number of visitors to learn and appreciate the wonderful combination of rubber and flexible printing process.

2. Spande (Shanghai) RMB

In this exhibition, Spande exhibited the AC series of wide-format flexographic combination printing machine industry regulations, the equipment is a multi-functional combination printing equipment, suitable for shrink film and other flexible packaging, coated paper, folding color box, plastic box, PVC and other materials printing. Taking flexible packaging as an example, in order to meet the requirements of environmental protection, some materials no longer need a composite process, but directly use the printing process to complete inkjet, that is, the use of gravure printing ink, making the drying effect of the ink become the most critical part of the printing speed. In order to meet the needs of the flexible packaging market, the equipment is equipped with a gravure ink drying system, suitable for the drying of ink and solvent ink, which can ensure that the equipment can run the CD printing with high efficiency and high speed, so as to ensure the printing quality. The flexo printing unit equipped with this equipment has a high level of automation, and each unit is equipped with 9 independent servo systems, which can carry out automatic registration, automatic pressure control and ink system control, which can ensure the quality of printed matter to a large extent.

3. Weigang technology equipment maintenance and maintenance

During the exhibition's printer tour, Weikong Technology exhibited four equipment, including the gap type PS offset press, flexo printing machine, and the newly launched WG S350 digital press and ZJR S350 combination (flexo/digital) press. Among them, although the flexo printing machine on display is not a new product, it has added new functions to the printing market, such as the addition of flat press screen printing units and positioning hot stamping units. Flat screen printing cost is low, printing enterprises themselves can make plates, reduce production costs, improve production efficiency, and the new three groups of independent hot stamping plate can be realized in the three groups of labels respectively hot stamping publishing dynamic, not only to avoid the waste of electrolytic aluminum, but also increase the anti-counterfeiting characteristics of the label. These functions are very down-to-earth, are very needed by label printing companies, and have been praised by the visitors present. Digital printing

In addition, the ZJR S350 combination (Flexo/Digital) press on display was one of the highlights of the entire exhibition, which demonstrated the technical beauty of flexo and digital printing. In the printing process of the sample roll, you can see three rows of labels, both sides are flexographic printing, the layout is unchanged, and the middle is digital printing, the pattern is changing. Without special instructions or observing the inkjet with a magnifying glass, it is difficult to distinguish which row of labels is printed with flexography and which row of labels is printed digitally. This phenomenon shows the high precision of the digital combination printing machine exhibited by Weigang Technology and the high level of graphic software design.

4. Special printing machine label

This exhibition, China Special printing machine is relatively low-key, did not release new equipment, but the equipment they display also has a lot of innovation. This special printing machine exhibited three equipment combination printing, gap type PS offset press, combined flexographic press and ZTR-370/430/560/680 multi-function unit flexographic press. For the PS plate offset press with large sales volume, the special printing machine has carried out a new upgrade on the cold pressing station, upgrading the original electrolytic aluminum intermittent transmission mode to continuous transmission, and the next printing station has resumed intermittent transmission after the completion of cold pressing. This improvement completely eliminates the cold pressing overprinting and unstable phenomenon before the improvement of flexible packaging, which is greatly loved by users. Similarly, after fully listening to the views of users, the combined flexographic printing press on display has also made bold improvements in the ink delivery system and printing system, and has received very good feedback. Line machining

In additionThe ZTR-370/430/560/680 multifunctional unit flexographic printing machine on display in China adopts a very advanced structural design, while using cast wall panels to increase the stability of the equipment; The double scraper sealed ink hopper can ensure that no ink flies during high-speed printing and reduce waste; Large roller design (roller diameter is almost the same as plate roller)It can improve the inking accuracy and avoid the printing quality problems caused by the defects of ink bars and mesh rollers; The plate cylinder is designed to be driven directly by a servo motor, and the imprinting cylinder is a large-diameter water-cooled bottom roller, which can improve printing accuracy and production efficiency for film printing and thermal material printing. The adjustment of the plate roller and the impression roller, as well as the adjustment of the mesh roller and the plate roller are on the operating sideEasy to operate.

5. Shenzhen Color

Shenzhen Color is a rare exhibition of intermittent relief label printing press suppliers, this time they are exhibiting a medium width equipment - CS-JQ350G multi-functional intermittent full rotary printing press. The equipment is characterized by the design of a guide rail, can be installed in different stations rotary screen printing and cold ironing units, printing stations without gears, are full servo motor control Epson, can achieve intermittent paper feed can also achieve full rotary printing, can print different thickness of materials and various types of labels. Packing trade

In recent years, although the appearance of relief printing equipment at the exhibition has gradually decreased, there is still a market demand for relief printing. Some label products must use letterpress printing, such as electronic labels and some simple logistics labels, because the quality of letterpress printing is not replaced by other printing methods. In addition, it can also be seen in the entries and winning works of the Asian Label Awards that letterpress printing still has a place.

6. Pryce Publishing

Pres is one of the most familiar suppliers in the label printing industry, and their testing equipment has a high market share in the industry. Although the company has not entered the field of digital printing for a long time, because they are familiar with the gravure printing industry and the needs of users, the digital printing equipment they have developed is very grounded, both in the process arrangement and in the printing quality. At this exhibition, Puris exhibited the third generation of Obida Elite series digital printing machine characters, the equipment is an integrated digital printing machine, which can realize flexographic printing, digital printing and digital post-press molding. At the exhibition site, there were a lot of peers watching the equipment demonstration, and they were also amazed at the various samples of printing. The biggest feature of the equipment is that the characteristics of inkjet printing are cleverly combined with the material and process design, and the effect of traditional printing is incomparable to the financial crisis, such as the reverse glazing process on the metallized film material to imitate the metal corrosion effect of screen printing.

7. Run the day wisdom pressure bump

Runtianzhi is one of the earliest enterprises to study inkjet printing in China, and has a certain market influence in the country. Although it has entered the label printing industry for a short time, it is developing rapidly and is a "new star" in the field of label digital printing. Lithographic printing in this exhibition, Runtianzhi exhibited a new product - Color God J-350GT HD label digital printing machine, the equipment is equipped with Epson S3200 industrial demand piezoelectric nozzle, printing speed can achieve 60~120m/min, the highest printing accuracy of 1200dpi×1200dpi, It is the highest precision that inkjet printing can achieve on the label market at present. This device can be multi-functional combination, such as different color group arrangement and position adjustment according to different materials and different customer requirements.

Label printing industry future development trend Intellectual property rights

Four days of exhibition visit and study, in addition to participating in the "big coffee exploration exhibition" visited some exhibitors, but also visited some other exhibitors in the supply chain, such as plate material, tape, ink and other auxiliary equipment suppliers, in addition to 2023 label innovation technology development forum to do a share. Through four days of communication to learn wine packaging, the author believes that the development trend of the label printing industry in the future mainly has the following aspects: book printing

01 Glossary

Traditional combination printing is still the main force of the entire label printing industry

All large equipment suppliers have launched multi-functional label printing equipment, which can combine different printing methods according to customer requirements and product layout, such as the equipment seen on the scene is the combination of offset printing and flexo printing, Spande's equipment is the combination of gravure printing and flexo printing, Weikang Technology's equipment is the combination of flexo printing and digital printing printing and packaging city. The equipment of the special printing machine is the combination of flexo printing and cold stamping process. The common feature of these devices is that the main printing method or coating method is based on flexographic printing, so the combination printing equipment based on flexographic printing will be one of the main popular printing equipment in the label printing industry today and in the future, which is the development direction of small and medium-sized enterprises in the future, and will not change for a long time. exhibition

02RFID

The rapid development of digital printing will become an important complementary proofing

With the increasing number of suppliers, as well as the continuous decline in ink and print head prices, digital printing equipment will gradually occupy the label printing market, becoming an important supplement to traditional printing methods, but it still faces challenges in cost and printing quality. In addition, digital post-press enhancement equipment will quickly enter the label printing industry, replacing the traditional screen printing and stamping and glazing process packaging and decoration, because it has a certain competitive advantage in cost and effect. Packing safety

03 Book Review

Printing process "a hundred flowers blooming" is still the characteristic of the development of the industry digital publishing

The object and supply chain of the label printing industry are different, and not all labels can be completed by combination printing or digital printing, some labels must use a specific printing method, such as the most suitable printing method for electronic labels is letterpress printing and screen printing, and the most suitable printing method for wine labels is PS plate printing. Therefore, the water supply/printing process "blooming" is still the characteristics of the label printing industry, as long as the printing method of the label printing company can adapt to the requirements of the supply chain and meet the needs of the market, it is the best printing method. Coin report

The above is the author visited the 9th China International Full Print Exhibition in the process of some experience, here to share with you, I hope you can understand the current label printing industry technology development trend. Finally, Founder, let us work together to continue to contribute to the steady development of the label printing industry! Personalized printing