Common Packaging Printing Process
Inkjet printing
Inkjet printing is an efficient and special printing method, which can be applied to packaging industry production lines to quickly print production dates, lot numbers, and bar codes. Ink-jet printing belongs to non-compression printing, the use of a wide variety of inks, so its substrate range is very wide, and can be a variety of packaging products. This certainly provides a lot of freedom for the packaging line. At present, there are many applications of inkjet printing that are not well known to the public. How to use inkjet printing technology is undoubtedly a hot technical problem. As long as we use it well, we believe it can bring us unexpected results.
2. Anti-counterfeiting printing
It can be said that in the field of packaging printing, anti-counterfeit printing plays a vital role. If ordinary products need conspicuous product logos, then many high-end products need a complete set of anti-counterfeiting systems. This is the demand of manufacturers and consumers, so anti-counterfeit printing is widely used in packaging and decoration products printing, and with the continuous improvement of people's brand awareness and the strengthening of intellectual property protection, I believe that anti-counterfeit printing will have a great market prospect. At present, the general situation is that many ordinary printing manufacturers do not have the ability to print anti-counterfeiting, so they have to purchase orders. In many cases, this order is more profitable than a simple printing order.
3. Label printing
Self-adhesive labels are commonly used materials in the packaging and decoration industry. In our country, trademark printing mainly consists of relief printing on stickers at present. With the diversification and gentrification of trademarks, other printing methods have gradually increased. In this area, the emergence of advanced technologies provides advanced solutions for printing systems. Narrow-width web presses with modular design and gearless drives are already in use. All leading equipment manufacturers offer hybrid lines for label and package printing. The hybrid production line can be equipped with offset printing, relief printing, flexographic printing, screen printing, gravure printing, digital, and hot and cold stamping units, making the hybrid production line ideal for single-pass production of packaging, cartons, and labels. This combination of printing also provides anti-counterfeiting features for labels. Printing plants with the strength of label printing can win more profits by improving printing materials, deepening the printing process, innovating printing methods, and developing label products with composite functions.
4. Printing of metal products
Metal printing is a special method of printing materials. Because of its high cost, it is generally used in the packaging of luxury goods, so its profit is relatively high. At present, the metal printing substrate gradually increased, and new materials continue to emerge. No matter which material is used, the printing process is different from paper printing. In China, offset printing, transfer printing, screen printing, and flexographic printing are mainly used. Some customers even require molding after printing and other follow-up work, which requires the printing plant to timely adjust the printing process according to different printing materials, the introduction of simple mechanical processing equipment, and the development of a reasonable production process. Only in this way can customer satisfaction be satisfied.
5. Paper package printing
This field accounts for the vast majority of packaging and decoration printing, but also the application of special printing technology is less, but in this field, we can also use innovative ideas to create more value. Due to the early development, carton printing and cardboard printing technology have been relatively mature, most printing plants have the production capacity of this product. This field is the world of flexo printing.
