As we all know, there are about 180 unit-type flexo presses that have been introduced in the country, and domestically-made unit-type flexo presses have also sold dozens of units. The flexo printers are philosophical, non-profitable and disadvantageous. In the recent years, people in the industry have For this reason, there was endless debate. In the investigation and analysis of the flexo printer users, it was found that the group-type flexo printer includes imported and domestic machines. Currently, it has an important place in the printing of beer labels, and the proportion of flexographic printing is expanding year by year. , Flexo printing machine users printed beer labels have achieved better economic benefits.
This situation was first demonstrated by the use of beer with flexographic prints. At present, several big beer groups that rank among the top in terms of production and sales volume in the national beer industry, such as Tsingtao Brewery Group, Yanjing Brewery Group, and China Resources Beer Group, have some of their beer labels processed by flexographic printing machines. Some lesser-scale breweries include wholly-owned enterprises such as Shanghai’s Suntory, Libo, Fujian’s Huiquan, Zhejiang’s Qianjiang, Heilongjiang’s “New Samsung†and Hainan’s “force. The "Yellow River" of Lanzhou, etc., has a very large proportion of beer labels processed by flexo presses, and individual ones are all processed by flexo printing machines.
In addition, the sales of flexo presses that process beer labels in recent years have been analyzed. Wherein, when the original flexographic printing machine was originally purchased, the product was oriented to other packaging products, such as cigarette packs, but later it had pulled a large number of orders for beer labels. This example was based on social printing plants. Some printing houses used other printing methods to print beer labels, and then turned to flexographic printing machines (for technological innovations). Examples of this are both the printing plants of the brewery and social independent printing plants. Of course, flexo presses are also subscribed by companies that specialize in producing beer labels. When printing beer labels at the same time, the flexo machine's operating rate is also better than the national average.
Can't help asking why the flexo press was so successful in the beer label industry? We believe that this is precisely because the advantages of flexographic printing machines have been fully utilized in processing beer labels. Generally speaking, the paper used for beer labels is almost 70-80 grams of coated paper or vacuum ejected aluminum paper. At present, the web of such materials is easily available, and the quality and performance are not enough. Beer labels are mostly in color (field) and line text versions. Except for certain high-line, high-gloss or out-of-print flexo printers that have a certain degree of difficulty, it can be said that most beer labels are suitable for flexographic printing, and generally The volume of beer labels is relatively large. One to two million sets are small orders, which can completely meet the “required amount of flexographic printing†when the industry insiders argued. The special requirements of the beer label in use, such as anti-warping, dry friction resistance, wet rub resistance, water immersion resistance, alkali resistance solution, etc., can be easily achieved on a flexo press.
Flexo presses have the following advantages:
Flexographic printing is mainly carried by the anilox roller. The thickness of the ink layer is determined by the number of lines and the amount of ink carried by the anilox roller. Therefore, flexo and gravure have the same advantage that they can control the color difference. The smallest. The consistent impression of the flexo printer users is that as long as the formula of the ink is unchanged and the power-on speed is the same, the ink color of the print product can be basically consistent.
The inks used in flexographic printing are mainly low-viscosity, fast-drying, water-based inks that can be printed very firmly on coated paper and vacuum-sprayed aluminum paper. In addition, the general group flexo presses are equipped with a flip frame (can be used for back coating), UV coating, slitting, slitting, and even line cutting, so that the flexographic printing machine can be used at a high speed of 100 mm/min. The finished product with a beer label or a semi-finished product with only differential die cutting has high efficiency and stable quality.
The use of water-based ink and the use of low-line anilox roller printing solid spot color, especially printing gold and silver ink, the effect is far better than offset printing, in recent years, flexible version of the cable system version of the technology has developed rapidly, especially the emergence of digital direct Plate making, making the quality of the flexo screen version greatly improved. It has become possible to reproduce 2% to 95% of points under 175 lines/inch. It is worth mentioning that some of the recent machine-type flexo presses are different from the previous 6 + 1 or 7 + 1 form, and use multiple UV curing units or even full UV flexo machines, so that you can get more exquisite network cable products . The cured UV prints are more easily tested for various properties. It is recommended that the flexo machine user may wish to try something when printing premium beer labels.
In the past, people often complained about the high cost of flexo plate making, but with the increase in the number of domestic plate-making companies, the level of plate making is getting higher and higher, the price is decreasing, and the service is more thoughtful. Compared with the gravure platemaking, the flexographic platemaking cost is slightly lower, its production cycle is short and the transportation is convenient and fast, making the flexographic printing more flexible than the gravure printing. Another advantage of flexographic printing is that the water-based inks and UV inks used are non-toxic, non-polluting, safe and non-flammable, and can guarantee a good working environment for operators in the production floor.
It is believed that the advantages of flexographic printing in the beer label industry will be further enhanced. It is believed that flexographic printing will have a broader prospect in China.
(Source: International Wine City Information Center)