According to a survey conducted by CT-based PacSys, commissioned by Kochsiek, a German paper product processing company, web flexographic printing has become a strong opponent of sheet-fed carton printing, and digital technology is playing an increasingly important role in it. effect.
With the development of the digital flexible sleeve plate making technology, the copy quality has been improved, smaller dots can be completed, and the dot gain rate is also reduced. These advances, coupled with the introduction of a completely gearless, digitally driven inline flexographic printing system (without gearboxes, power shafts, timing belts, and roller gears), enable flexographic printing to meet most offset carton requirements.
The survey also included the reaction of more than 250 North American folding carton companies. It believes that reel production (flexible and offset printing) will increase from 35% in 1990 to 47% in 2000, but this increase will be based on a single sheet of paper. The cost of printing is reduced. Sheetfed printing will show a significant decline, from 63% in 1990 to 51% in 2000. At the same time, according to the survey, the market share of gravure will continue to shrink gradually over the past decade, from 15% in 1990 to less than 10% in 2000.
The survey also believes that although the share of web offset has doubled in the decade, from 10% to 20%, the share of offset in carton printing has shown a downward trend and is expected to drop from 75% in 1990. To 72% in 2000. This should be attributed to the growth of flexo web printing, which is expected to jump from 8% in 1990 to 16% in 2000.
Mike McGuinness, President of PacSys, also noted that the carton industry is in a position from "broad flat sheet, gravure, and traditional traction type label printer flexo printing, to a more automated, more reliable, more capable narrow-width gearless "Reel Flexo Printing System Platform" is an important step in the transition.
Compared with sheetfed printing, roll printing has grown. Part of this can be attributed to the recently introduced multi-purpose, flexible, shaftless (digital) rotary cutting system, which can perform a variety of production processes (cutting, cable ties, bumps, etc.). This new system is more cost effective than previous systems.
The survey also predicts that competition will continue to intensify in an industry that is constantly experiencing joint restructuring, and that paper processors will strive to reduce the time for users to place orders and deliver goods. At the same time, the total number of carton factories will still shrink, the number of presses will drop even more, and each new reel production line will replace two existing production lines. (printing)
(From China Packaging News 2000/2/1)
With the development of the digital flexible sleeve plate making technology, the copy quality has been improved, smaller dots can be completed, and the dot gain rate is also reduced. These advances, coupled with the introduction of a completely gearless, digitally driven inline flexographic printing system (without gearboxes, power shafts, timing belts, and roller gears), enable flexographic printing to meet most offset carton requirements.
The survey also included the reaction of more than 250 North American folding carton companies. It believes that reel production (flexible and offset printing) will increase from 35% in 1990 to 47% in 2000, but this increase will be based on a single sheet of paper. The cost of printing is reduced. Sheetfed printing will show a significant decline, from 63% in 1990 to 51% in 2000. At the same time, according to the survey, the market share of gravure will continue to shrink gradually over the past decade, from 15% in 1990 to less than 10% in 2000.
The survey also believes that although the share of web offset has doubled in the decade, from 10% to 20%, the share of offset in carton printing has shown a downward trend and is expected to drop from 75% in 1990. To 72% in 2000. This should be attributed to the growth of flexo web printing, which is expected to jump from 8% in 1990 to 16% in 2000.
Mike McGuinness, President of PacSys, also noted that the carton industry is in a position from "broad flat sheet, gravure, and traditional traction type label printer flexo printing, to a more automated, more reliable, more capable narrow-width gearless "Reel Flexo Printing System Platform" is an important step in the transition.
Compared with sheetfed printing, roll printing has grown. Part of this can be attributed to the recently introduced multi-purpose, flexible, shaftless (digital) rotary cutting system, which can perform a variety of production processes (cutting, cable ties, bumps, etc.). This new system is more cost effective than previous systems.
The survey also predicts that competition will continue to intensify in an industry that is constantly experiencing joint restructuring, and that paper processors will strive to reduce the time for users to place orders and deliver goods. At the same time, the total number of carton factories will still shrink, the number of presses will drop even more, and each new reel production line will replace two existing production lines. (printing)
(From China Packaging News 2000/2/1)