Cardboard box is the most important kind of paper packaging box, in recent years, with the improvement of the quality of life and people's awareness of environmental protection, the demand for paper packaging box is increasing. In the process of producing cardboard boxes, which is the most commonly used printing process? This article will discuss this, and from a positive point of view to explain its advantages and its application.
Paper packaging industry, the most commonly used printing process is the "flexographic printing", this printing process is characterised by the plate is soft, can be adapted to different shapes, different sizes of the printing surface pieces, with the rubber printing head will be printed on the substrate, also known as the "flexographic gravure It is also called "flexogravure" or "contour plate printing". Compared to other printing processes, flexographic printing is best suited for printing large areas of cardboard boxes that require high quality. Why is flexographic printing the preferred choice for carton printing? We can find the reasons from the following aspects.
First of all, flexo printing has excellent printing effect, printing out of the carton bright colours, clear patterns, full, flat layout, gloss, can achieve very high printing quality, because flexo printing can adapt to a variety of different shapes, different sizes of cartons, so there will be no overlap of printing, uneven or off-colour and so on.
Secondly, flexo printing is efficient and fast. Flexo printing can print continuously at high speed, which saves manpower and cost, and at the same time improves the production efficiency and enhances the competitiveness of the enterprise, which can print hundreds of metres wide and thousands of metres long of cardboard per minute.
Another point is that flexo printing is relatively environmentally friendly, relative to other printing processes, flexo printing with less water-based inks and organic solvents, containing low volatile organic compounds, so it will not cause great environmental pollution, but also in line with today's society's environmental policy.
Finally, the printing material price of flexographic printing is low, can save a large cost of expenditure for enterprises, compared with several other printing processes, flexographic printing to the plate price is low.
In summary, the above reasons make flexo printing become the preferred printing process of carton printing. A variety of brands, a variety of colours, a variety of printing and processing of cardboard boxes, are more suitable for the use of flexographic printing to complete. In actual production, flexo printing will often be used in combination with other printing processes such as sun printing, gravure printing, screen printing, etc. In short, as the market demand for high-quality cardboard boxes increases, flexo printing once again through the advantages of high efficiency, high quality, low price, environmental protection, and so on, to become the leader in the printing process, has been widely recognised and concerned, with the continuous development of various polyester printing technology, flexo printing with other printing processes, and so on, has been widely recognised and concerned. With the continuous development of various polyester printing production technology, flexo printing and some other printing process will be more flexible, efficient and environmentally friendly, cardboard box production industry further forward, so the combination of these processes can allow enterprises to meet the diversified needs at the same time, improve production efficiency and printing quality.
