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Post press digitalization helps the transformation of printing enterprises digital printing

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core tip: in the early stage of the development of digital printing, it was mainly used in "ultra small batch", from a few to dozens, mostly hundreds of copies. Post press processing mainly depended on manual or semi manual small equipment. Now, digital printing has developed in the direction of high-speed and industrialization, which requires that the subsequent process can also have the same level of industrialization. It is gratifying that digital post press technology has lived up to expectations. Now many manufacturers can provide industrialized solutions, such as MBO, Martini, etc. It is the digital post press solution that extends the digital printing production line. If digital printing is "from paper to printed paper", then extending to digital post press is "from paper to finished book", which is the change from "printing from one sheet, different sheets" to "binding from one book, different editions".  

[China Packaging News] in the early stage of the development of digital printing, it was mainly used in ultra-small batches, from a few to dozens of copies, most of which were hundreds of copies. Post press processing mainly depended on manual or semi manual small equipment. In 2009, Chinese enterprises produced 215000 tons of composite polyurethane adhesive for plastic flexible packaging. Now, digital printing has developed towards high-speed and industrialization, which requires that the subsequent process also have the same level of industrialization. It is gratifying that digital post press technology has lived up to expectations. Now many manufacturers can provide industrialized solutions, such as MBO, Martini, etc. It is the digital post press solution that enables the extension of the digital printing production line. If digital printing is from paper to printed paper, then it is from paper to finished books after digital printing. This is the change from printing from one sheet, different sheets to ordering from one book, and different editions

digital post press is unstoppable

printing is divided into pre press, printing and post press according to the process. Post printing refers to the further processing of semi-finished products to strengthen or beautify their binding, appearance, flatness, anti-counterfeiting, packaging, etc

with the vigorous development of the digital printing market and the continuous improvement of digital technology in recent years, the digital printing market is gradually maturing and expanding. The digital printing technology has basically taken shape, and the digital printing solutions are gradually improving. In 2013, China's digital printing output value reached 10.3 billion yuan, accounting for 1% of the total printing output value for the first time

however, in the process of the development of digital printing in China, manufacturers selling digital printing equipment will find that foreign printing enterprises purchase equipment according to the full set of solutions, while in China, except for a few wealthy enterprises, most printing enterprises only buy the printing system, that is, the standard horseback binding, folding, paging system, variable data solution and color management system are basically not used

the reasons are: first, the accessories are expensive. A nail costs 0.15 yuan, which is not affordable; Second, labor is cheap. It can be solved by using more people. With the increase of labor costs, printing production related consumables and rental costs, post press processing has changed from crowd tactics to mechanization and automation. Such changes have led to the rapid improvement of post press processing technology. The importance of post press processing is valued by more and more decision makers of printing enterprises. The view that post press processing has become a new profit growth point has been recognized by more and more printing enterprises. The overall goal of the 12th Five year development plan of the printing industry organized and formulated by the former General Administration of publishing is to promote the work of digital technology in the whole industry by the end of the 12th Five Year Plan, focusing on digital printing, digital workflow, CTP and digital management system

the process of digital printing has been developing gradually for decades from digital prepress to digital printing and digital post printing. It technology has greatly enriched the development of printing from the high-end connection of electric extension machines to phototypesetters, direct plate making machines, digital printing machines, to the current digital post printing. If web printing is the trend and Internet thinking is the trend, the digitization of the pre -, middle - and post printing links must also be the trend, and it is irresistible

from digital printing to on-demand publishing

when on-demand printing has become a key word in the printing industry, more and more publishers are either watching or starting to get involved in digital printing. The development of on-demand printing business is a systematic project. If the digital printing of personalized order changing 1 extensive plastic granulator as a combination and intelligent plastic granulator makes the publishing industry begin to look forward to on-demand publishing, it is the maturity of digital post press technology that gives us a personal experience of on-demand publishing. At present, the market breakthroughs in the printing sector are concentrated in software fields such as concept change and copyright protection. On the contrary, the hardware matching ability of the post press sector is gradually becoming the focus of digital printing in the field of books and periodicals

for many domestic book printing peers, their impression of different digital post press production lines of this book comes from the 2012 drupa exhibition. At that exhibition, MBO company, a well-known Postpress manufacturer, cooperated with Martini company at the exhibition site to demonstrate to the global printing industry peers what is called the difference between books. A digital Postpress production line from web paper to bound books became the star of the scene. The web printed products completed by digital printing were cut through the MBO uncoiling device (the cutting length was variable), and then the MBO folding machine controlled the pneumatic fence according to the processing information, Each sheet fed printed matter is folded in different ways to form different book stickers, and then the stacking equipment will stack multiple Book stickers into a book according to the preset and send it to the glue binding equipment. The glue binding equipment will mill the back, equip the cover, dry and cut three sides of books with different thickness according to the preset information. In this way, at the end of the production line, people see personalized books with different thicknesses and sizes

if personalized digital printing makes the publishing industry look forward to on-demand publishing, it is the maturity of digital post press technology that gives us a personal experience of on-demand publishing. We see that books of different sizes, thicknesses and contents can be output at the same time. Only then can we really forget the concept of traditional printing mass production. At the same time, we will also be surprised at the amazing production speed of the digital post press production line. Although different books are produced, they are also at the level of industrial production

this is the charm of digital post printing. It also inherits the personalized and on-demand characteristics of digital printing, and realizes automation on this basis, which can realize online production. Thanks to this, we can imagine that the books planned in the future can not only have personalized content, but also personalized cover and even personalized format

from the traditional warehouse to the printing workshop

it is understood that in the digital printing workshop of an enterprise in the industry, various digital printing machines with different production capacities and post press processing equipment are available, especially the post press processing equipment. There are digital post press production lines connected with the digital printing machine, as well as offline production-oriented digital post press production lines. The two production lines cooperate with each other to produce various types of book blocks used in different binding methods. At the same time, binding, sewing, hardcover and other binding equipment can carry out the final treatment of the book block

imagine that in the context of huge inventory pressure in the publishing industry, is it true that another service department technology center in the digital printing workshop is an effective way to solve this problem? You might as well use the workshop as a library and print as many books as you need. With such a workshop, whether you need oneortwo copies, oneortwo thousand copies, the digital printing and digital post printing production line can be solved at any time

of course, when it comes to this problem, the cost problem cannot be ignored, but with the maturity of various technologies and the increase of business volume, the cost problem will be solved one day

from printing house to publishing house

in the digital wave, every publisher has felt unprecedented pressure, and the development of digital publishing has become a road that the publishing industry has to take. In the current publishing industry, digital publishing is in full swing, and there is no mature digital post press production line. These patent technical barriers hinder the manufacturers of Chinese ternary materials from entering the international big factories. It is doubted that it will be an important channel to connect digital publishing and support publishing. Some insiders have also said that the on-demand printing of CLC is not to build a factory and buy several equipment, but to create a new operation mode and service mode based on the on-demand printing and the import and export of traditional publications

it can be seen that digital printing is no longer a simple processing method, but an innovative operation mode of digital publishing or publishing on demand. In this way, the out of print books can be revived, the minority books have the opportunity to play, and the readers can choose the content to print on demand according to their preferences. In short, digital printing gives the publishing industry more opportunities and development paths

everything that can be digitized will eventually be digitized, and printing is no exception. Since information technology created the digital road of mankind, after decades of development, the trend of digitalization, networking and wireless mobility of global business activities and social life has become irreversible. The latest round of it reform with PC Internet and mobile Internet as the main body has shown results in the printing industry. Post press digitalization will become a trend and create great value for the development of printing enterprises. Let's wait and see