Break through post-press concepts and technical constraints to complete the 21st century printing process

I. Features of printing and processing in the 21st century

Computer technology has grown at a speed that exceeds conventional imagination. In the form of the Internet, people of different races and ideologies who are difficult to communicate across the world are closely linked. The trillions-per-second operating rate and photoelectric transmission technology can spread the news that is happening all over the world without any time difference. Uncountable information came in explosively. It has also been rapidly converted into traditional carriers such as newspapers, magazines, and materials via downloads by publishers and information media, and has spread to a wider area that has not yet reached the Internet or cannot be accessed by network information. Let us buy the required version in the kiosk on the street. In addition to e-commerce operations, the promoters even pass through the gaps in the community's door to give you access to printed colorful magazines, tabloids, catalogs, and lace privacy and even advertising emails that are presented in a variety of titles. But frankly, no matter what kind of information is obtained, we will only be interested in a small part of political, scientific, technological, economic, sports, and cultural information. The rest is all useless information junk. Although the information materials obtained by the same source of information were edited and edited by different publishers, the similarity of the final publication content was gradually neglected. The once infamous prints that spread across the streets had to be accumulated in the warehouse and eventually recovered by the paper mills. On the contrary, a large amount of knowledge that people urgently need is lost due to the length of the publishing process. In order to catch up with an opportunity, the rush to release the product information is difficult to print due to the minimum cost of starting a large press. A large number of research documents, declaration forms, and negotiating documents related to production technology and quality of life improvement are critical. We must know that we must serve different target groups and produce a user-specific personality. Products. Establish on-demand printing as the business direction. The new positioning will bring unlimited business opportunities. This new business philosophy will surely form new features.

On-demand printing is a feature of the 21st century printing process.

Second, the key to achieve on-demand printing in the concept of post-press and technological innovation

CTP plate making technology and digital printing machines are the results of computer technology infiltrating the printing industry. Efficient omni-directional scanning technology instantly converts originals into plates. It also has the advantages of network point expansion control, consistency of dot density on the whole page, elimination of artifacts caused by manual work, short printing preparation time, and ease of transmission and storage. The digital press under the control of the same program can quickly work as required. Printing on-demand platemaking and printing plate (or plate cylinder) transfer to the substrate can be achieved.

The problem lies in the post-press processing that still maintains its original appearance.

Post-press processing is divided into two aspects: printed surface finishing finishing and print classification combined binding.

As a finishing finishing technology, the surface finishes are covered (bright, matt), glazed (whole or partial, bright or matt), die-cut, creasing, and anodized aluminum.

As a combination of print and bookbinding technologies, there are book and book binding, saddle stitching, wireless glue binding, and perfect binding; there are also reinforcements for packaging boxes and boxes (adhesive coated paper, honeycomb paper, board paper, moisture, and oil , light protection, barrier materials, and adhesive molding.

As a conventional technique for finish finishing of printed surfaces after lamination, coating and glazing, the process consists mainly of coating or glazing of randomly coated adhesives, glazing coatings. It is easy to produce pollution caused by the volatilization of organic solvents during production, and the resulting health damage and sudden fires of production personnel. The products produced often have new quality problems such as poor adhesion, color change, and odor migration.

Low-quality bookbinding technology continues to be adopted in underdeveloped countries. The imported rubber binding linkage equipment cannot operate normally in these areas. Not only does it cause a huge amount of investment waste, but bound books also have problems such as bulk loose racks, dropped pages, and difficult to read.

Both of these printed materials are printed outside the printing line and are inefficient. Labor-intensive and extensive traditional concepts and technologies form an obstruction and embolism in the printing process. In the direction of digitalization, the backwardness and gap between India and China have become more pronounced.

After breaking through the constraints of post-impression concepts and technologies, digital printing and market requirements require rapid development and printing to complete the 21st century printing process. The key to achieving on-demand printing is that post-press technology must be innovative.

Third, post-press technology innovation

Postpress processing is computer controlled. Implementation of integrated pre-press, printing and post-press integrated CIP3 (prepress, printing, postpress) integrated industrial standards. It must implement a unified standard with prepress and print production process systems, and be connected in a network to a fully digital production process system. Develop software and interfaces that control the entire production process digitally. The database will be connected to a management information system that provides job scheduling, tracking, and work instructions. To ensure that the entire workflow (from color separation to post-press processing) operates in a predictable and reliant manner of quality.

According to the instructions entered before printing, surface finishing can be performed at the specified location. The digital coating process enters a new process of hot-press composite production that does not require gluing. It becomes a solid-phase glazing green product that can decompose and decompose under the new specific conditions. Data-controlled on-line printing or spraying and other new glazing processes and new drying technologies such as electron beam and microwave enable the glazing coating to reach a thickness with sufficient strength without any negative impact and become a liquid-phase coating. While further improving the state of the surface of the paper, the paper can make up for the defects such as tear resistance, water resistance, and oil resistance.

The new type of polymer reactive and biopolymerized glue-adhesive hot melt adhesives will replace conventional rubber-bonded materials that are easy to age and inconvenient to recycle.

Post-press technological innovation is more important in concept conversion. Seeking truth from facts, knowing one another, knowing people, and serving the market are the basic concepts of post-press processing. Not only should the variable factors such as substrate, raw materials, equipment, climate, and emotions be monitored one by one as a condition for ensuring print quality, but more importantly, it must be known to serve different target groups and produce personalized products formulated by users.

How can we do it? The answer to this question will be to choose to staple.

Fourth, what is the choice of binding

Selecting bookbinding is not simply a combination of quality categories, but also different from the traditional layout of the binding. Instead, according to the pre-selected criteria, the books are individually assembled according to the different requirements of the object, and a new type of printed matter is created on the basis of the same subject and each has its own characteristics. The separately assembled signatures are essentially the corresponding combination of choices for the collection of market information feedback. Even each product will have a different appearance. For example, when you subscribe to a weekly publication, you can fill out a release comment form and select different topics on this form. Your information will be entered into the database by the administrator and reprinted to print as you need. Selecting binding has broken through the administrative division model of publishing, printing and distribution. It is a virtual or reorganization of the survival chain that provides services for the market. Selecting binding is in essence the unique configuration and supply of effective resources according to specific requirements. It is the start of the operation of the knowledge economy in the printing industry.

Another function of choosing to bind in the information age of economic globalization is to provide readers with free magazines. According to the readers of a certain target group, other content is added to the magazine. People who are interested in football will get magazines for football content, people who are interested in cars will get magazines for car content, and so on. In this way, a specific product can be produced for the target group. What they bring about is not only the expansion of the circulation, but also the mutual affection and trust in mutual communication, which is more conducive to the development of civilization and social progress.

V. What are the possible criteria for finding different target groups?

Our experience is to conduct serious research through the following approaches:

Social/demographic statistics;

Geography, historical knowledge;

Economic operating conditions;

Recent and mid-term development plans;

User basic situation and side analysis;

Readers' interest;

Customer basic situation database;

Shopping analysis

Market research trends and more.

The above possible data resources are the basis for the determination of different target groups.

What are the advantages of choosing binders for manufacturers? First of all, it can provide separate designs, that is, it also has corresponding production capacity for demanding orders. At the same time, there are new features of the products to be provided in a timely manner in response to changes in the market, and the opportunity to modify the additional standard skills and telescopic production in an emergency.

The advantage of the publisher is that it can obtain the latest information from the subscriber after the contact through the print, grasp the position of the selected topic, and can propose satisfactory new ideas by considering the interest of the reader alone.

Another advantage for publishers is direct access to and exchange of user-exhibited reference information. Advertising prices are increased due to increased design standards and unique personal advertising. This is the inevitable return of the aforementioned emotional communication.

In the end, what is the superiority of the product? It refers to a higher product value and more attractiveness, completely different from standard printing. Personalization is usually reflected in: advertising, binding inserts, ordering orders, free inserts, individually wrapped, loose-leaf prints, and so on.

How can we enter the world of bookbinding with the help of Muller Martini? First of all, there are two saddle stitchers in the range of products that can be selected for production. The speed of the Optima can reach 13,000 rpm, and Tempo can reach 20,000 rpm. OPtima and Tempo are controlled by external managers in the CIP3 system solution.

The Optima SB range can be expanded to 24 automatic paper feeders, with a narrow splicing chain, bundling loading equipment and printing ink rollers. A storage system configured on the printing ink roller can control the automatic paper feeding device to match it. Additional features are the print control system, a SEMKO unilateral measurement system and a distribution image inserter and wrapper, or Muller Martin. Such downstream devices have the possibility of scaling with the size of the opening and how much the print is stretched.

Moreover, Optima SB is equipped with a sequential start/stop device as a standard, a vertical automatic paper feeding device, a card folding machine automatic paper feeding device, a cover folding paper feeder automatic paper feeding device, and an additional card gluing machine. The signature of each automatic paper feeder is different. This means that they are all controlled by the choice of binding. The administrator can give a signal when the rebates are given or not. On the feed side, the signal is guarded by a paper sucker to ensure precise feeding of each label.

Sixth, how to personalize

Zero-stock printing, one-to-one market printing service digital program, control plate-printing-folding-splitting-binding process. According to the user's order, the printed matter is completed online.

Even if the printed matter has been completed, when the new amendment is received