Cut-cuts/Die-cuts

Die-cutting can lend some visual interest to a brochure, and when used in conjunction with careful layout design, can be very effective and even add to the message of the brochure itself.

The technique is typically used on front covers, but with a bit of creativity, can be applied anywhere within the body of the brochure too, as shown here.

The origin of the packaging box,

The origin of the packaging box, we can make such a claim, since the human society, people learned how to dress up the goods, and from the life gradually found some suitable for  packaging material factory. Such as the use of plant fiber woven into rope or basket, using hollow bamboo tube containing articles, to making skills later understand Tao, appearing to Tao for packaging materials, etc.. These it is a crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient working people.

In nature, the packaging is no small in. The atmosphere is the earth's packaging, orange is orange flesh inclusion. Quartz is beans of packaging, thin coat tomato outer is its packaging, the packaging and coconut shell thick is coconut embryo Hugh and Coconut Juice, these are very wonderful natural packaging. People through bionics, create factory packaging, packaging, packaging, packaging and other packaging composite air form and human services and the old with the. Therefore, nature is great for inspiration and influence of human use of packing box.

With the development of the times, the progress of productivity, packaging is not only the protection function, its other functions such as portability, storage, appearance also appeared gradually. Especially the first industry revolution, for the development of production technology, make the product into a substantially reduced. How to expand the market circulation products, attracted the attention of people. The global economic crisis in nineteenth Century 30. The product backlog volume, is directly stimulate the manufacturer. In order to promote sales, they began to work on the packaging design, hoping the delivery and packaging and advertising media to promote the sales of products, and strengthen the function of packaging, increase the added value of the products.

Product packaging has become a part of modern business people production inseparable, has become the tool of business competition, each manufacturer are under the banner of "new packaging, new listing" door to attract consumption of all, rack sth., not hesitate heavy gold, in order to change the products in the consumer, the image of the heart, and also improve the dielectric the industry's own image. As the record company for the new building. The new star packaging, and in order to change the image of the same total fans. Now, the packaging has fusion in the development and design of various types of commodity production, almost all of the products are through the packaging to become business

Products to enter the circulation process.

With the new century coming in. International trade long speed development, packaging and new materials, new function is developing rapidly. Packaging as a "silent salesman", its status is becoming more and more obvious, in the economic globalization today, packaging has become part of the commodity can be divided. Packaging and role in the production, circulation, sales and consumption of more important, packaging design will directly affect the product sales. Therefore, the world today than in any previous period pay more attention to packaging design.

Is a box just a box? How packaging is impacted by the digital revolution.

Those who have been around the packaging industry can tell you that no one can predict its future. From experiments gone awry – like Jacques E. Brandenberger’s failed attempts at transparent tablecloths that ultimately resulted in the invention of cellophane in 1908, to petroleum-based materials used to protect ammunition during World War II(1) – the drivers of innovation are constantly changing. When self-service retail and new food products, particularly frozen food, became available in the 1950s, Europe took a lead role introducing new packaging and distribution that became important in providing mass-produced food at reasonable prices.(2) Then the popularity of bottled water in the 1990’s resulted in packaging innovation for ultra-lightweight, collapsible plastic bottles.

Moving into the 21st century, counterfeiting and security concerns, particularly in Asia, have led to tamper-proof, authentication, track and trace, and anti-theft packaging innovations. Likewise, the demand for sustainability and environmentally friendly packaging in North American markets has resulted in some companies transitioning from petroleum-based plastic containers to containers made from corn and biodegradable PLA drinking cups(3). Others are using renewable, compostable pouches made of a bio-polymer derived from plant and corn starches, while using the latest eco-friendly water-based printing inks, which contain less than five percent of volatile organic compounds.(4)

From accidents in the laboratory to security demands by brand owners to environmentally conscious consumers – different factors drive packaging innovation at any given time. While the argument that a box is “just a box” remains true, the way the box will look and how it will be produced has evolved and will continue to evolve going forward.

To map out a growth strategy, packaging converters must understand and use the knowledge of what drives innovation today. Many converters are building growth strategies around digital print technologies, and some early adopters have already integrated digital presses into their current operations.

Will this be a revolution of replacing current flexo equipment with digital? Or will it be more of an evolution of new products and technologies integrated with more traditional means of production? No one knows for sure, but studying trends in similar industries can provide perspective. Further, certain conditions in packaging today may accelerate the integration of digital package printing equipment into existing shops sooner than expected. 

To develop an effective growth plan, converters need a clear picture of future packaging requirements, an understanding of brand owners’ expectations and knowledge regarding the latest capabilities of digital print and other innovative technologies.

Learning from the Past

Let’s start by looking at general commercial printing to learn from the economic and technological changes that took place when digital equipment was first introduced and eventually became a mainstream technology.

Commercial printers who understood the trends and spotted the growth opportunities were early investors in digital presses. They reaped the benefits by being able to deliver on more profitable, short-run jobs with fast turnaround times.  While conventional print volumes declined, digital print volumes actually increased.(5)

Commercial printers were enticed by many of the same benefits that packaging converters find attractive about digital printing: No plates, minimal setup time, fast turnaround, the ability to easily incorporate variable data and the advantages of advanced color matching.

Flexibility was a key to digital success in general commercial printing. The same is true for packaging, particularly in terms of substrates. This can be seen clearly in the top three segments – flexible packaging, boards and rigid plastics – all of which vary greatly in thickness and printing methodology. As digital print technology has progressed, solutions are now available across a broad number of substrates including films, plastics, folding cartons and corrugated. Printing on substrates with varied thicknesses can be handled better by digital technology than traditional flexo solutions.

One of the early challenges for commercial printers adopting digital technology was compatible workflow and finishing solutions.  Today, most leading workflow and finishing vendors have solutions for both offset and digital production.

The overall technical solution provider

With the development of manufacturing technology of printing machine to a high degree of automation, interactive, intelligent, digital, polychromatic multifunctional direction fast, new printing equipment has been widely used in modern latest technology. "HP provides not only equipment, will also show you a series of front, rear scheme." Feng Hanquan said. Management from the front-end database, color, after the road detection, glazing, die-cutting equipment and the material used, solution providers tend to provide a unified solution to customers.

HP Indigo30000 is especially for the carton application market and development of digital printing machine design, format support 75 cm x 53 cm, thickness up to 600 um. "The right format can be adapted to the existing production environment, is suitable for most carton applications, the overall production cost is low; the broad support for today's Carton Market thickness more than 90% production needs, can meet the future needs of more complex; support comprises a metal cardboard, plastic film class of synthetic materials and other printed materials, these factors will give the carton applications market brought a digital revolution." Feng Hanquan introduced the technology development.

Have the advantage of solution providers, let the digital printing equipment in the production of electronic documents in one step for the product, and can be printed with the later do die, hot stamping and so on, which make customers feel very convenient. Printing factory needs to provide more competitive services and more efficient for the customer response, solution provider for adjusting body printing factory, the short single live through digital printing equipment, but not a waste of time.

The printing industry to personalized to meet consumer demand

The development of electronic technology and people's personalized pursuit of the increasingly apparent, making digital printing has make a spurt of progress of development, but it also requires digital printing must be constant pursuit of innovation, to personalized printing to constantly meet the market demand!

Personalized printing in foreign countries known as on-demand printing (Print On Demand), namely the printed image and text by changing the preset content and format, each printing can be specific to a particular object design and printing. Personalized printing is very reminiscent of a variable or a short version of printing printing. Variable printing, printing the variable is a common characteristic, but the traditional printing in mass between variable, and personalized printing volume within the variable. As for the short version, outstanding is the batch size, did not reflect the personalized content.

Printing should be 3 part includes the prepress, printing, after printing, personalized printing is not only personalized design, but the set design, printing and Postpress in one. Personalized printing application range is very extensive. Personalized printing marketing is the main form of driven by provider type and driven by a customer type, then the personalized printing development required how technology? In recent years, support of personalized printing digital printing machines become more mature, faster, higher quality, and more reliable performance, each printing costs are also rapidly decline; new technology and work process so that the production process is more perfect and can realize automation, the rapid growth of Internet to make personalized advantages, data processing as well as the personalized printing to provide support. All this provides a basis for the development of personalized printing.

However, personalized printing is facing many challenges, in the process of implementing the first: it is pure technical problems, but also market and management issues, including the need for standards, data processing and security, 印张 accuracy, binding and subsequent processing requirements, market acceptance degree and demand. Second: from the perspective of the current development situation, it has not become a real mature industry. The key problem to have more industry and printing enterprises invested its asked, personalized printing add power, the market potential into reality, but also open up new profit point of personalized printing. According to IBM according to the survey, 71% of customers with personalized printing in the next two or three years, 43% of which will use color personalized printing technology.

At present, the personalized printing in abroad in the field of printing on demand growth is very Shaanxi, in part because producers have begun to consciously target customers to develop a target market of their own: on the other hand is the end user more and more printing products emphasize their individuality, to printing quality requirements increasing, so as to promote the application of personalization printing.

In China, the development of personalized printing there are two main obstacles: one is the personalized printing market has not yet formed, scale and too little, also had not been paid enough attention; two are engaged in personalized printing cost is too high, while also taking into account the capacity of enterprises, the actual situation to choose suitable equipment for other enterprises; on the one hand, because of the influence of traditional printing concept, most people have formed a kind of ingrained ideas: printing only big batch business.

Although such a personalized printing market, but one thing is for sure, print to the individual development is a trend, on behalf of the printing direction in the future, the potential market will become a new space for the development of printing enterprises. With the application of F biochemical printing, there will be more and more enterprises to realize the dream, beautifully printed annual reports, books, manuals, documents, samples, enable enterprises to establish a good image, to win in the competition.

The newspaper Control in lean production

The newspaper printed in the grim situation of the equipment investment to keep calm. Most printing enterprises talked about is the CTP plate making machine investment. For example, Xinhua printing company, the people's daily newspaper printing printing factory, the South Branch respectively this year bought two sets of CTP plate making machine. Shenzhen newspaper printing at present are also bidding to purchase two CTP plate making machine.

Newspaper printing always rely on is the economies of scale, with the decreasing this two volume, better be very careful in reckoning benefit by management, has become the consensus of newspaper printing enterprises. The Southern Newspaper Printing Branch this year put forward a 'broaden sources of income and reduce expenditure management, work ideas be very careful in reckoning conservation benefit', focuses on the internal grasping the printing cost control, by changing the section of the paper examination methods, to develop energy control measures, to achieve the fine management objective.

The market scale and the application level of sheet fed offset printing

The sheet fed offset printing machine especially for large machine printing speed has reached 15000 sheets / hour, and some can reach 17000 ~ 18000 sheets / hour, not only printing speed is greatly improved, but also through the application of information technology, shorten the prepress preparation time and replacement live time, improve production efficiency. Network, integrated production, digital workflow and management information system links technology, have been or are being used, the level of automation of large sheet fed offset printing machine also has been improved obviously.

The sheet fed offset printing machine is absolutely the main equipment in the printing industry, general books, commercial and  color packaging & printing business depends on the sheet fed offset printing equipment, can say, sheet fed printing machine is our most common printing enterprise equipment. The sheet fed offset printing machine also rely mainly on imports, the major manufacturers have Heidelberg, Roland, KBA, KOMORI, Mitsubishi, Ryobi, in addition, Sakurai, Shinohara, Arizona and other import brands are also common in domestic printing enterprises.

history knowledge of calendar

The famous scholar Lin Zengping, Mao Zhuqing editor of the "historical knowledge desk", was published by Hunan people's publishing house. The sixty-four little desk calendar, every sixteen words, content rich, succinct, easy to understand, is the popularity of historical knowledge, conducting education in patriotism, a try characteristic. Throughout the book, give a person a few distinct impression. Hangzhou calendar printing have great originality of exquisite arrangement. "Calendar" is not only the beautiful appearance of the calendar, and is a popular historical knowledge of the manual, has dual purposes. The editor by calendar form, the popularity of historical knowledge, skillful in patriotism education. "Calendar" according to historical clue, have the option of daily describes the history of this happened, important events and important people. "This is the view of view, does not exist without history".

Cheap Postcard Printing at Fantastic Quality

Christmas starts early in Austria when young men in oversized shoes parade through the streets of Salzberg rattling chains, clanging cowbells, and waving sticks at bewildered kids. Welcome to Krampuslauf, which pays tribute every December 5 to the ancient boogeyman known as Krampus.

With his devil-like hoof, tail, serpentine tongue, whipping stick, and sack full of misbehaving kids, Krampus emerged as Northern Europe's bad cop to kindly Saint Nicholas more than three centuries ago. But when Saint Nick migrated to the United States in the 1800s and morphed into fat, jolly Santa Claus, Krampus stayed behind.

COMING TO AMERICA

Krampus finally gets his close-up in America thanks in part to Monte Beauchamp. The Chicago comic book publisher launched the cult of Krampus after he came across a cache of antique postcards printed in Germany 100 years ago during the golden age of chromolithography.

The now-obsolete printing technique produced unusually rich colors that gave rise to a fantasy postcard craze that swept Europe in the late 1800s and made Krampus something of a holiday greeting superstar.

"The illustrations of Krampus exuded great character and imagination," says Beauchamp. "I'd never seen postcards printed that well before and I really liked the whole fantasy element."

Emboldened by reader response to Krampus card art published in his 2001 BLAB! comic book, Beauchamp compiled Krampus: The Devil of Christmas followed by a greeting card collection. Last month, he expanded the brand with playing cards and the Krampus Sticker Book (Last Gasp).

MERRY, SCARY CHRISTMAS

Besides Krampus, Europe's dark fairy tale tradition also spawned such holiday freaks as Dutch kidnapper Zwart Piete, Czechoslovakia's child-beating evil spirt Cert and disheveled German creep Knecht Ruprecht. Beauchamp reckons Americans are finally in the mood for some Krampus-inflicted shock treatment. "Krampus brings a little bit of angst to Christmas when people imagine there's this dark, foreboding figure out there who's watching your every move. If you do something bad, you may disappear and be cast into the flames of hell."

Check out the slide show for a sampling of full-color Krampus beauty shots.

Packaging enterprises to achieve energy-saving emission reduction and low carbon economy

At present, corrugated box industry serious excess of production capacity, market competition is becoming increasingly fierce, the profit space more and more small products. Therefore, to reduce the production energy consumption of the device has also become a new measure for the enterprise after the strict control of the production process of raw material waste away. Energy saving wind carton industry rise, bring new market competitiveness for carton enterprises, but also from the internal energy saving to win the profit space.

Speed up the transformation of technical equipment process

Use of energy saving packaging machinery or modified equipment is the main way to carton enterprises energy saving. For example, a carton enterprises will be the original fuel boilers into energy-saving projects coal gasification furnace, the fuel cost is reduced by 60%, half a year for the enterprise to save 250000 yuan. And as the corrugated cardboard processing patent device with a cardboard box factory, using combined corrugated roller and arc preheating plate instead of the commonly used integrated corrugated roller and the heating roller, non direct heating mode by direct heating mode instead of the traditional, the heating speed is increased, the heat loss is reduced, so that the power consumption of the heating part of the corrugated machine reduction 40%.

Energy conservation, is an effective method to maintain the sustained and healthy economic development. In the fierce market competition, reduce the energy consumption of enterprises has become a pressing matter of the moment to reduce cost and increase benefit. Now saving system of the new generation of automation, intelligent, digitalization has become an effective way to change the high consumption, low efficiency, can provide a full solution for all areas of the users, more than 20% energy saving. Some large paper factory, carton factory has already started using the high efficiency energy saving system automation, intelligent, digital. Large and medium-sized carton enterprises transform production lines and other equipment motor configuration, using VVVF (variable frequency Saver installation) is a new way to reduce energy consumption.

The computer network management



Carton enterprises to enter the computer network management is very important, carton enterprise management is very complex, rely on artificial management, management personnel, more errors, repeated, low efficiency, slow information. Summed up as "San duo, a low, slow". The computer network management can solve the above problem. Carton enterprises in recent years the development computer network management to achieve excellent results, some small carton enterprises also use the computer network management, entered a new stage of modernization, scientific, network information management. To manage the market, benefit from management.

Pay attention to personnel training and development

In addition to speed up the transformation of technical equipment, promote the process of computer network management to reduce energy consumption, cost savings, carton enterprises should also be the point of enterprise management innovation management of enterprise. Energy consumption is a permanent topic, to ensure the persistence of energy efficiency and energy management progress, talent training is the key and foundation, cultivating talents in other areas Chinese equally important.

With the new management of production and development of new technology, development, personnel training and development of enterprises becomes more and more important. Engineering and technical personnel, carton enterprises less, cultural level is generally low, enterprise management does not stay in the traditional management mode. Business leaders began to pay great attention to the talents, the recruitment of a large number of work a person with breadth of vision, boldly, to give preferential treatment, so that the engineering and technical personnel of secure services for enterprises, have the ability to work to promote reuse. Some enterprises after several years of efforts to cultivate a group of College served as deputy general manager and department managers, some enterprises talents for professional training, some enterprises for the computer network management system, training management personnel systematically, lay a good foundation for the development of computer network.

China printing among the top three in the world

Reporter learned from the departments concerned, the total industry of China's printing industry has reached 951013000000 yuan, an average annual growth rate of close to 20%. Size among the top three in the world.