Pre-production system new technology

Mr. Bruno and Mr. Palon are presidents of Belgian prepress and pre-production equipment suppliers at Barco Graphics, and have been in the printing industry for 10 years.

In 1979, he earned a master's degree in electrical engineering (computer science) from Gbnt State University. In 1981, he received a master's degree in business administration from Ghent State University. In 1990, he joined Barco as manager and customer service manager of Electron Tooling Systems Deoartment. In 1993, he was appointed Executive Manager of Barco Graphic Arts and created economic benefits for Barco. In 1998, he was promoted to General Manager and Vice President of Barco.

In 2000, His Majesty Albert Belgium granted the title of Jazz Member of the Barco Management Committee, and Mr. Bruno Parron was among them.

Good morning, I'm Bruno Paron's manager. Barco Image is a company dedicated to the needs of print packaging and printed circuit board production.

I am very honored to have been invited by the Organizing Committee of the 7th World Printing Conference to have the opportunity to meet with many friends from the Chinese printing and publishing industry and wish the conference a complete success. I am sure that the exchange of experience during the conference will be very beneficial to the successful development of the Chinese printing industry.

The theme of my speech is the difference between the packaging field and other printing fields. More specifically, my theme is about some of the revolutions that will drive packaging and the pre-press revolution. I will start with some differences between packaging printing and other printing methods and briefly review the direction of major markets.

Then will enter the following topics: In the packaging production, there is an integrated box type. The importance of an image production environment Digital process flow and the impact of the direct plate making system on the printing The location of digital printing technology in the packaging production in the next few years, and finally explain why We believe that providing a total solution will affect the packaging industry.

Packaging is an important part of the printing and publishing industry, packaging products account for 20% of all prints, and the global annual growth rate of 5%.

It is worth noting that the proportion of packaging products in Asia is 29%. And there is a 7% growth rate that is twice the world average growth rate.

We only need to look at the different types of substrates around us. We can see the difference in packaging and printing methods. We will see various types of substrates from paper and cardboard to various plastics, metals and glass.

At the same time, various shapes of products need to be printed in the packaging printing. Therefore, a variety of die cutting and post-processing technologies are used in the final molding of the label box and the paper bag.

In this speech. We focus on the stage between the market-driven creative design process and the benefit-driven production process that we call the prepress process.

The packaging prepress process has two important functions. First, it strives to convert the creative design into matching mass-producible tools such as printing plates and dieboards in the shortest possible time. It is important that all quality brands and requirements meet the satisfaction of the end user or customer.

Second, it must take into account the different characteristics and complexities in the production process so as to ensure consistent results every time during repeated and off-site production.
It is very clear that the range of materials used for packaging printing is very wide. We therefore hope that other production steps will also play a corresponding role in prepress production.

There are several major trends in the packaging market that are causing changes in the prepress process.

Consumer goods that are increasingly fierce and rapidly changing in the consumer market 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 design cycle of four to five years ago is normal. The production cycle of packaging products has also become shorter and shorter.

With the continuous innovation of materials science printing technology and production technology, production tools and processes are also progressing.

Therefore, the need for increased collaboration across the entire supply chain continues to grow not only to make profits but also to meet the global demand for production.

In fact, all of the original packaging designs used desktop software such as Adobe lllustrator but these software lacked effective functions to accomplish design tasks efficiently.

With the development of desktop system software technology, both designers and customers think that PDF will be the perfect data conversion format. However, some of the important packaging design elements in the PDF will be lost so it is not suitable to use dry-complicated packaging designs.

From the above several conclusions, the market is strongly in need of technological upgrading to eliminate these drawbacks.

These two examples show two basic functions that show you the correct transparency and embossing effect to help designers check printability.

The successful development of the packaging industry is the result of joint efforts of end users, graphics and structural design and production.

A complete software environment brings together all the design tools used by users to play a great deal of worry, and greatly increase productivity and reduce errors.

Specially designed for packaging pre-press software that provides functionality for the packaging process, one of the most well-known is the trapping function. There is also an equally important ability to handle spot colors and custom inks, including calculations of ink usage and print data. At present, adding anti-counterfeiting elements in packaging design to prevent counterfeiting and copying is becoming a new hot spot in the market. There are very few softwares on the market that can meet these needs.

However, we should not only focus on image processing. In reality, there is a parallel process flow between the end customer and the producer. For example, the box-type structural design die-cutting and other follow-up processes.

There are even fewer companies that can coordinate the two processes.

Packaging designers very much hope to work in such an integrated environment. The system can realize the perfect combination of box-type design and image for 3-dimensional preview and even preview the actual placement of the box-type on the shelf.

The need for this structure-graphically integrated workflow is manifested in several aspects of production. For example, direct color inkjet proofing of a carton carton in a box prototype can now be achieved. Through the combination of CAD and image design and color proofing, the same product can be produced on a prototype box as it is actually produced.

The next topic will be printing process packaging printers not only considering a single label and packaging but also considering the same or different design layout.

The common situation is that these individual labels and packages are imposed with a traditional copy machine. They must be placed in the same position as the die-cut version of the die-cut version used after printing.

There are some other conditions because of the large-format laser imagesetter digital formation process can be completed directly in the prepress part and then use the large format laser photosetter output film on the plate.

Nowadays, with the advent of direct plate-making equipment on the market, we no longer need the film intermediate media direct plate-making equipment to have the following advantages in packaging production:

First, the design center can deliver data to different print ends in any data format.

The second omission of the film reduces the time of plate making and greatly shortens the printing cycle.

The third is no film can make full use of the printing plate and avoid the possible errors in the printing.

While direct plate-making equipment replaces tanned equipment, we must also solve color proofing problems. With the support of suitable color management software, high-quality inkjet printers have been able to simulate the effects of the final printing product.

Finally, we may make a serious mistake by copying the packaging software products and processes designed for professional image designers to the output center. We determine that we need specific product services to do the current production methods and work.

For packaging printing companies, the ideal front-end for direct-to-plate equipment accepts image designs in one or more different industry-standard formats on the one hand, and on the other hand, accepts printed sheets from CAD systems. In general, the design that the customer has already signed or the one that is consistent with the diecut cannot be changed. However, there are special cases such as adjusting the printed image to a different plate, adding a print control bar and post-processing marks, and adding production control and tracking information as a whole.

A direct platemaking process requires a matching prepress system control. It can group different image designs with corresponding cut lines. This flexibility is necessary for fast-moving goods that require shorter production cycles to match shorter delivery times.

Direct plate-making imaging equipment is used both for offset printing and progressive flexographic printing (digital printing for dry-gravure printing is nothing new).

In offset printing for commercial printing, the plate-making equipment is the first to be applied. We must see some special requirements for packaging. For the selection of plates, we believe that in the near future, 830urn thermal plates will dominate in long-run printing. Thermal plates have a higher printing rate and good adaptability to spot inks. Last year, drupa introduced UV laser lithographic plates used in short-run printing, such as trademark printing.

What is developing very rapidly is digital platemaking for flexo printing. The main technique here is more or less the use of standard resin plates on the surface of this plate is coated with a thin layer of dissolving. A powerful laser source exposes the dissolving layer to a negative image based on data. The current flexo platesetter on the market can support multiple plates and large production volumes including direct imaging on sleeves and on-sleeve plates.

What is the next generation of prepress technology we expect?

Everyone will think of digital direct printing without the film printing digital printing system has been rapidly developed in the literature and general printing market. There is still a lot of work in the packaging market to deal with the processing and processing of raw materials and on-line and off-line compatibility have created many challenges. We need to have suitable mechanical resistance and meet the requirements of special products (eg, contamination of dry foods) spot inks and toners.

We hope that digital printing will be gradually introduced and first applied in a small area. Such areas as "immediate" printing or information printing can bring significant benefits. The printing of labels and short-cuts of cardboard is a good candidate for the production of small-volume corrugated cartons and on-demand production.

The key question, like its official new technology, is how to digest the just-increasing production costs by providing users with high-value-added products.

We see that the industry is looking for an ideal platform for introducing digital printing into the packaging industry. Some programs are based on the original book printing and adding materials processing and post-processing capabilities.

Others have specially designed new digital presses for industrial printing. It applies digital printing workstations and inkjet technology to existing narrow-web printing systems.

The latest printing trends I discuss will not only affect package prepress production but will also affect the entire packaging production chain.

Major Western consumables suppliers have established many open associations in order to increase efficiency and reduce the cost of the production chain. They are setting standards for collaborative communication and coordination throughout the process. There is no doubt that the exchange of data worldwide will be conducted through the World Wide Web.

This integrated packaging product production chain will affect everyone. The packaging producer, like the output center, must research new strategies to meet the needs of users. They expand support for all customers regardless of large users and small users and form new competitive advantages.

There are many aspects of the interaction between packaging manufacturers and their users and collaborators. This is a creative process - some are internal and the user is with them. It is also a production environment in which the evaluation plan and order management are closely linked.

All of these activities have one thing in common: they focus on products and production instructions, and on the precise management of prepress production and production from different systems. It is very clear that the packaging world of the future requires that most of the information directly handled by W "B" is naturally safe and accurate.

We have already begun to develop software based on the WE Day for pre-production environments. Select from the design library for detailed adjustment cost estimation image management review control

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