Flexo Printing Equipment Selection Guide

[Chinese Packaging Network News] For packaging companies, the choice of commercial label printing equipment in addition to reasonably controlling the cost of raw materials, equipment, matching, utilization, environmental protection, etc. are also operational considerations.

The matching of business types and equipment selection is particularly important for packaging and printing companies. Commercial packaging companies often require high-level automation, easy operation and maintenance, and high production efficiency and utilization of equipment. Choose 8-color or more, and configure the equipment. Good, high efficiency, easy operation and maintenance, and good service flexographic printing equipment are more suitable.

The flexo label printing machine has a simple structure and low cost. The printing quality can be comparable to offset printing and gravure printing, and the ink layer is thicker. However, due to the flexibility of the flexographic printing plate, the reproducibility of the tone plate is different from that of the gravure plate and the ordinary letterpress plate. The high-light to mid-tone dots of the flexographic printing are larger, the printing contrast is small, and the high-gloss layer is prone to a fault. When the fine graphic label is printed In order to compensate for the layer defects, the highlight part can use FM network dots, dark tone or intermediate call AM screening to improve quality.

Packaging companies preparing to introduce flexographic printing presses can introduce laminating narrow-width flexographic printing presses dedicated to sticker printing, which is suitable for film label printing. Since flexographic printing presses are all circular die-cuts, die-cutting rolls are expensive and have a long production cycle. They are suitable for long-run printing. Although the characteristics of short-run printing are not suitable, the flexographic printing press can be used with films. The slitting, sewing and sealing processes work on-line and have certain advantages.

With the reorganization and reshuffling of the packaging and printing industry, more and more commercial packaging and printing companies will be concerned with trademark printing, making the trademark printing business another powerful growth point in the commercial packaging and printing business.