Several years later, printing changed:

Digital, information, and intelligence have completely changed the way in which print is disseminated and produced. We must not only seek faster, better, and more efficient production in its place, but also integrate it into other media and use text graphics and video information more widely. , Creating more value in the field of multi-media, so that exquisitely printed information files become an important part of business and communications operations. Printing media may shrink but never disappear, because human beings always have a need for visual senses, and printing technology has become a high-tech production. Today, it is not at the top. More places will be applied in the future. It is just how we face it. , respond to it.

1. Automatic design and smoother production process

Rapid advances in computer hardware and software have been shown to increase memory capacity and computational speed by a factor of ten and a hundredfold. As long as the repetitive actions record procedures and change quantities, the computer can simulate human instruction creation, such as going back and adding shadows. For the base map, as long as there are proofs and movements, the computer software artificial intelligence can respond to the operation, not having to manually repeat operations each time, both fast and labor-saving, and there is no difference in personal technology level. The computer will reach the level of human intelligence in language input, OCR byte identification, as long as people can understand to enter, greatly reducing the burden of input. Image capture equipment from digital cameras, mobile phones to scanners, video recorders, sources more convenient and diverse, intelligent translation, will make the world's village knowledge and information exchange more frequent and more barrier-free, increased printing and distribution opportunities. With the development of cross-platform and cross-media file formats such as PDF and XML, it is very helpful for the use of communication processes and automatic production. The use of scheduling programs to automate production will certainly lead to labor savings and sometimes even to unmanned production.

2. Web application makes print transmission methods and technology changes

Due to the improvement of network bandwidth and advances in file compression technology, file format restrictions have been reduced. With faster and more convenient internal corporate network messaging and external Internet applications, the current web-based printing of small files will become far-fetched. The long-range proofing and long-distance dispersion printing. The application of network technology has drastically changed the printing market and ecology. In the future, as long as the publishing house warehouse is only a little bit, only the server publication file and the sales mechanism are mainly based on the use of lock code technology. The designated printing unit can print and print as required, or print it out at their respective customers. After the file is automatically hidden, at this time, the printing industry will only make the page file and manage the information. Printing and printing is the work of local use or remote transmission of small amounts of output. Business personnel do not need to bring catalogues to run in the world's exhibition grounds. As long as they are printed locally, users pay the royalties for buying books, go home to export their own products, or appoint special stores to print and bind them.

3. Single information file diversified output application

The input sources include text, graphics, video, and voice information created by keyboards, voices, digital boards, digital cameras, scanners, and computers. These are integrated into high-resolution print files that can be used for large-size screens. Therefore, in addition to prints and large posters, In addition, other web pages and CD electronic media can continue to use these page files.

However, the meticulousness of these electronic documents is often inferior to that of the print media. Therefore, the printing industry must recognize that it is the page information creator and manager status that has greater room for survival.

4. Lithography revolution

Lithography is the most widely used format, and it is in a downward trend. However, based on efficiency, quality, and cost, Pingyin is still the main format for short, medium, and long editions in packaging, publishing, and commercial printing. The widespread application of CtP makes it advantageous in terms of cost and engineering. It can be made on-machine by DI, spanning prepress, printing and even processing. In the future, under nanotechnology, the single-fluid printing of water-free general PS plate will make the quality of the offset printing quality more competitive, and the printing density and hue will improve, so that simple device technology will be able to apply the offset printing freely. There are quality standards. CIP4 will reduce print preparation time and print color reproduction more accurately. In terms of packaging and sheet metal printing, there is an ultra-compressed air-cushioned blanket that can print 1.5-mm-thick corrugated sheets without the need for pick-up applications. The suite of digital tracking controls that have been used and the future automatic detection of water supply and ink supply compensation will provide a more logical control of the quality of the typographic machine.

After the digital control servo motor is widely used, the structure and control of the typographic printing machine will be simpler. The servo motor not only replaces the crank and the cam in the printing unit or the single cylinder drive, but also elastically reciprocates, more in line with the speed and the printing change, in the printing. Machine design, manufacture and use are simpler, and inspection and maintenance are more convenient. If printing pressure is reduced, the press structure will be thinner and lighter. Printing presses will pursue faster job change speeds, rather than absolute press speeds, unless it is a large wheel press or commercial rotary press.

The on-line processing of the typographic machine will be more important, which can greatly increase the added value of production, including the original glazing, extinction, and the full use of ceramic micro-acupuncture roll liquid supply, replacing the roll gap and pressure adjustment type, in addition to environmental protection requirements, The glazing method that can be deinked and recycled can be dissolved to meet the standard. The use of a thin plate-type guillotine knife for die cutting on a typographic machine is a very valuable process. Serial numbering, bar code, inkjet on-line and other variable embossing processes break the frame of the typographic fixed plate. Chrysanthemum four minicomputers still have a strong and small market value, especially CtP's small-size high-speed platemaking, polyester version of the low-cost substrate, showing the flexibility of this type of machine.

5. Decrease of gravure and flexo

Due to environmental protection demands, materials such as film or synthetic leather must be changed to water-based inks, so gravure electronic engraving and mature solvent-based inks should also be replaced by more shallow and shallower ink holes. Therefore, electronic gravure cylinder imaging, In order to corrode the depression, it is possible to respond to the printing of the aqueous ink. Flexography has a higher adaptability to water-based inks, but ink must still be improved to produce good print quality. Plus, CDI direct plate imaging resin plates or laser-burning imaging make flexographic prints shorter and less costly. , may gradually replace the gravure printing position in the film and synthetic materials. In terms of trademarks, forms, and exquisite corrugated paper printing, there is still room for development. Banks, credit cards, and labor and health insurance notices will all have printed color advertising pages. Therefore, plain printing and flexo printing will have varying degrees of substitution. Flexo is suitable for small quantity and cost in terms of cost and elasticity. “Axialization” is an important direction in both gravure and flexo. In particular, flexo flexo has more than ten kinds of on-line glazing, film, die-cutting and screen printing. And other processing possibilities, such as the multiple processing of scratch lottery tickets, are applied more widely. However, gravure is superior to ultra large-scale, ultra-high-speed magazines, cultures, and large quantities of plastic printing over a width of more than two meters. For example, American RR Donnelley still locates large-scale magazine printing in gravure printing, mainly in tissue paper. With high density, high gloss, and high quality reproduction, even commercial rotary printing cannot catch up.

6. Screen printing accuracy and breadth increase

The screen can use 175-line technology in color printing, dot reproduction and density even better than the print, so applied in a lot of personalized mobile phones, electronic supplies, very pleased. On the other hand, electronic products such as circuit boards and LCD-TFT digital camera parts with overprint accuracy of 5μ or less also test the repeatability of the screen printing machine and reproduce the accuracy of the print pattern. In large-scale posters and banner printing, the use of multi-color machines in the middle of the country to link UV-UV drying systems enables the work to be carried out at one go and greatly increase production capacity. However, in addition to a large number of posters and thin-plate printing, the use of giant inkjet printing for small-volume posters will be 100. The following market substitutions were mainly due to the fact that the project was not used for plate making and printing, and that it was possible to use platform-type ink jets on concave-convex thick materials and screen printing for a short period of time. Screen printing machine's automated production system is the most urgent need, because the high efficiency requirements of the electronics factory is the focus of screen printing plant research and development. Screen printing uses direct inkjet imaging and has not yet replaced filmmaking.

7. Variable print printing is the fastest growing

Toner, inkjet, and electronic inks are the three main methods for printing non-printable variable prints.

The toner is used by companies such as Heidelberg, All Record, HP, EPSON, Xeikon, IBM, Nipson, Oce, etc., with 6000 A4 printing capacity per hour and fine output of 1200dpi, the printing pattern can be changed completely or partially, and the setting cost can be With a great deal of flexibility as needed, we will work harder and cheaper in the future in order to fight for a larger number of printing jobs. Also, the gloss and thickness of the imprint will be similar to those of the plain version. It is difficult to distinguish the plain printing or the toner with the naked eye. Print, but need to be strengthened in front-end file processing operations, and the largest size is only 500×700 mm, and still need larger size for people who use the full-scale printing of the chrysanthemum. In the future, the printing ink of the toner will be more refined and the color concentration will be more improved.

Electronic inks are Indigo and Toyo Ink Elcosy. Indigo is capable of printing 8,000 copies of A4 per hour on speed. On the other hand, it can be printed with a light-colored auxiliary dot method, and the quality of photos can be increased by adding a film. Roll-up Omnuis trademark printing method, do a variety of changes in content, serial number and color change number anti-counterfeiting features, in the future in the size (especially wide) increase, if up to 28 inches (720mm) can print all prints chrysanthemum Short-term demand, however, is still stuck in the high-priced market with slow speed and high cost, and it cannot be popularized. ToyoInk Elcosy printing is electromagnetic printing (water-based printing ink coagulation attached) printing method, machine width of 600mm, speed per minute up to 350 miles (105 meters), the cost can be low, material adaptability is strong, research and development to date5, 6 years have not yet been commercialized.

Inkjet printing is a very mature and practical technology. Regardless of thermal foam and piezoelectric methods, size and size from photos to large posters, and even high-speed full inkjet form printing production, micro-dots have reached 4800dpi resolution, and large posters also have The resolution of 360dpi can be seen closely, using UV-drying ink-jet printing, excellent in optical rotation resistance, weather resistance and adhesion. It is a large poster, not absorbing surface and heavy slate, steel, wood and other materials Important printing method.

In a printer with a width of up to 1 meter, the printing industry is very popular for use in proofing work. In the future there will be a market for poster production and large-scale wedding photo prints. In particular, after the album is printed, the page size and large-size print layout are still quite large. Market space. Scitex's high-speed print head has a very mature market for variable information printing after computerized report printing. The printing press formed a full-color, full-content print with high print speeds, with a width of 22 inches (550mm), a speed of 150 meters per minute, and 360 dpi resolution. The future will certainly be more refined and the speed will increase. In the past decade, the capabilities of inkjet heads have advanced more than a thousand times. The future use of semiconductor process inkjet heads must be larger in size and refined. This is expected.

Using e-paper and electronic ink, which can be repetitively changed in phase, one day can become a book mode. Each time you load different information repeatedly, no waste paper is produced. For example, the whiteboard in a classroom can be written by different teachers. Its small particle components, due to the induction of different polarities, form a color or an achromatic effect. Once reintegrated into a "white paper", it is of great significance in environmental protection. The printing industry has become a page information provider. By. This type of paper can be used on merchandise, warehouses, and billboards to change prices or content at any time without rewriting.

8. Security and security printing

Due to the overall improvement of printing equipment and technology, traditional four-color printing trademarks, packaging and manuals have no anti-counterfeiting effect, and they must use six-color and seven-color high-speed fax color printing.