Will you choose functional material printing?

The printed materials of functional materials are already in every aspect of people's daily life. For example, printed electronic products that belong to the category of functional material printing are already well known. For example, if your mobile phone is aligned with the barcode of a product, you can get a lot of information about the product's production date, shelf life, manufacturer, etc. This is because the smart tag has played a retroactive function, and this technology has been widely used In people's daily lives.

As another example, when your mobile phone is aimed at an image of a woman printed on paper, a clear 4D image of the woman is displayed on your phone, using AR augmented reality technology, which has also entered the People's vision can be seen at many exhibitions. For example, China Business United Printing Co., Ltd. has applied this technology to cards, reading materials, and even T-shirts.

What is functional material printing

The domestic reference to functional printing first appeared around 2010. So far, there seems to be no unified authoritative statement on what is functional printing. A statement that can be seen now is that the printing of functional materials does not involve the performance produced by color, but the performance produced by physical or chemical methods.

At present, the functional printing that domestic and foreign printing companies have involved or intend to get involved in is roughly: circuit boards printed with conductive paste, electronic label production (RFID) using radio frequency identification technology, time temperature control strips using nanotechnology, and variable timing Color warning food expiration date ink, flexible and flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED), solar photovoltaic panel, paper battery, paper loudspeaker, plastic solar battery, ETC highway toll label, etc.

Functional printing needs to be explored by printing companies

The key for printing companies to choose to enter functional printing is to do what they can. When talking about functional printing, you should clearly realize that:

1. Functional printing is a new field that will continue to expand with the development of technology;

2. Functional printing is a new field in which the printing industry aims at market demand, intends to expand its business, and has good development prospects;

3. Since the emerging functional printing is not the printing of color reproduction in the original sense, when printing enters other fields, other industries must also be brewing to try to enter the printing field by virtue of the technical advantages they have mastered. Equally fierce and cruel, we must be fully mentally prepared for this.

Since functional printing is a new category, the current market share of this market is very small compared with the domestic packaging market, which has reached 1.3-1.4 trillion yuan per year, compared with the printing market that is close to trillions. Therefore, printers facing market challenges should naturally pay attention to, pay attention to, and even actively participate in the research and development of the functional printing market, but we must not take the lead, lose our own printing, and do not rush into this area from reality. Brand new, although it may have broad prospects for development.

The future of functional material printing

Transformation and upgrading are the practical issues that must be considered in all traditional industries after the arrival of the digital age, including the printing industry. With the further development of digital technology and the continuous increase in market demand, it is believed that the functional printing involved in printing companies will also increase with the times. Some professional analysts said that the annual sales of printed electronic products in the global market is expected to increase from the current 2.1 billion US dollars to 52 billion US dollars by 2020. This indicates that in the not-too-distant six or seven years, printed electronic products will have an increase of more than twenty times.

In recent years, the development of functional material printing in our country has been rapid, and it has become more and more widely used in our food, medicine and packaging. At the same time, it has been gradually industrialized in other fields. In addition, the production of mobile phones and photovoltaic cells is also inseparable from the printing industry. The development of new printing technologies and new printing materials often provides the printing industry with great new business opportunities. Functional printing is suitable for some qualified printing companies to cultivate a piece of land. The development and occupation of the functional printing market will take some time, but it is believed that the application of functional material printing will be more extensive in the future.