The finishing touch of printing value-added after printing

The binding process of the post-press bears the final task of decoration and processing of books and periodicals, and relates to the use value, reading value and collection value of the books and periodicals. If there is no correct and firm connection and beautiful and elegant frame processing, then fine prints cannot reflect its contents.

Times and value. Especially in the future printing, postpress is not only a post-printing process, but also an important art processing process and a key link to greatly increase the value of the printing value chain. If the entire printing process is a one-stop process, then printing is the crowning touch that will make this dragon soar. Only in this way can we truly recognize the importance of India in future printing and the strategic value of investment in printing.

"Three legs"

After printing, it is necessary to "strengthen bones and bones"

In the printing industry, for a long time, all kinds of resource allocations, such as capital investment, technical strength, and even site arrangements, have always been given top priority to prepress, then India, and finally postpress. In the printing of the "three feet," the "foot strength" is the weakest in India. Even for some time, many large and medium-sized book printing companies have compressed the “not-for-money” binding, shifting binding operations to bookbinding satellite factories located in townships and villages, and concentrating funds and technical strength to enhance prepress and color printing. In recent years, thanks to the gradient transfer of the world's printing industry, domestic printing has grown by leaps and bounds, driven by strong market demand, and from the development of digital printing, the widespread application of information technology, digital printing processes, etc. "Strong ribs and bones" is an excellent opportunity period. After India, the full "foot strength" gradually gained strength and led to many new definitions of post-press equipment. For example, connection or multi-function processing (using a printing press to finish the paper pre-press or post-print finishing function, other post-press processing, etc.) makes it difficult to define whether a device belongs to the attributes of printing or postpress. The traditional post-press processing is mainly based on the process of finalizing the prints, the die-cutting and adhesive-bonding molding, and the adjoining finishing process. In the modern post-press processing, the basic functions such as linking are only It occupies a small part of the entire post-printing process, and more processes are used for functions such as finishing and anti-counterfeiting, new definition of post-press processing, new definition of post-press processing technology, and new definition of post-press process , More and more printing companies are re-understanding of the new status and new role of India in the entire printing field, and have begun to increase investment in post-press equipment and software applications, and domestic post-press machinery manufacturers are post-press processing enterprises. Provides affordable and applicable equipment. The requirement for “diversification and automation after printing” proposed in the 28-character guideline for the development of the printing industry by the end of last century is becoming a reality and has laid a foundation for further improving the level of post-press technology and equipment. The foundation provides unlimited business opportunities for the development of postpress equipment and related software.

"Digital marriage"

After printing will be printed cattle ears

Since the middle of the last century, China’s post-printing technology has undergone three major changes: the first was the manual-to-mechanical change in India in the mid-1950s; the second was the change from single-machine to co-movement at the end of the 1960s; Three times since the 1990s, it has been marked by digitization. With the upgrade of stand-alone functions, diversification, linkage, and online connections, it has advanced to the international advanced level, and the post-press processing that has been almost forgotten in the printing technology for many years began to show itself. The potential rich added value has gradually become an extremely important part of the entire printing process from the original auxiliary production process.

In recent years, the following new trends have emerged in China after printing:

The first is the diversification and complication of the post-printing process, and the gradual development of sophisticated technologies. The number of high-end books is increasing, and various cover materials are changing with each passing day, and special post-press processing techniques continue to emerge. Such as the entire book binding mode, there are luxury equipment, special-shaped equipment, wireless glue binding or binding glue binding hardcover, air back processing non-adhesive cloth soft hardcover, etc.; cover folded front mouth more and more style, some front mouth using In order to increase the carrying capacity of commercial information, the periodical is to implement personalized periodical binding, cover half-folding and full folding (double cover, Four pages), even on the double cover and then on the half-fold (inverted) and die-cut; the surface finish is changing with each passing day, such as by stamping a specific graphic, a specific part or special graphics fold, Molding, die-cutting, overall glazing, partial glazing, thick layer glazing, dripping, hot stamping, refraction, roller pressing, etc., make the prints from monotonous and dull, flat images displayed in color blocks, fully upgraded to Colorful, rich luster, structured, vivid and vivid multidimensional three-dimensional image of the fine arts and crafts.
The second is the use of paper, quantitative, and other international standards. With the convergence of international standards, the volumes of paper and cover sheets used in books and periodicals have also grown thicker and thicker. High-grade specialty papers have been widely used, and wireless glue binding has become the mainstream linking method. Various types of bookbinding technologies and methods.

The third is the post-impression equipment, "Eight Immortals crosses the sea and each shows a supernatural power." Various automated high-speed linkage production lines that are synchronized with the development of digital printing and are compatible with the production capacity are used in many applications. If any digital printing is equipped with digital platemaking, bookspots can be sorted in advance, and printed materials can be directly bound into volumes without the need for posts. Some data automatic input devices of the collating mechanism can automatically identify hundreds of binding sizes of books and books. Operation status for production control and monitoring, image detection error system can randomly correct or reject incorrect pages; some post-press processing has been extended to the mailing part, online inkjet printing address or labeling, and classified packaging, directly by the printing plant Send it to the postal service. The post-press equipment and auxiliary facilities that are suitable for small-batch processing and have a variety of automatic functions make post-press operations more convenient, with higher accuracy, lower labor intensity, and cost savings. For fully automatic paper cutters that support external cutting programs, PC programs can be transferred directly to the paper cutter through a computer interface. Manual measurement is not necessary when cutting paper. The movable paper feeder can feed the paper feeding mechanism from Printing presses are transferred to foldings and other processes without having to reload them.

The post-harvest process is becoming more and more diverse, complex, and even complex to the point where people want to do it. This is determined by the overall level and trend of socio-economic development. The production of modern books and other printing and packaging products not only requires durability and beauty, but also requires elegance, art, and artistic appeal to attract the attention of consumers.

Post-press processing is not just a process, but is becoming an art. Printed semi-finished products are just like clothing here. Only after the meticulous cutting and production of this brilliant “tailor” after printing can we become a high-end fashion. After printing, it is necessary not only to do its own work within the process, but also to be able to make up for some deficiencies in prepress and printing as much as possible, so that the printed products reaching the consumers can achieve the desired requirements. At present and for a period to come, the development of postpress technology will gradually match and synchronize with the development of new prepress technology and printing technology, and will eventually be printed.