With the growing market of consumer products, the morphological design and brand civilization of various products play an increasingly important role in people's consumption concepts. Due to the advancement of customer demand, product packaging has become an indispensable part of the product manufacturing process. The development of new packaging and printing techniques has caused product manufacturing companies to gradually turn their attention to the transformation of printing methods to enhance brand value. Therefore, many packaging and printing companies have gradually abandoned the original printing methods and began to apply inkjet printing techniques to product packaging and printing. Go on. Inkjet printing has the advantages of universal printing materials, sensitive printing format, thick ink layer, strong adhesion, etc., and gradually shows a weak development momentum in the field of packaging printing.
Demand for inkjet printing in packaging
In today's increasingly important brand form, the value of packaging becomes as important as the value of the product itself. The use of inkjet techniques in the field of packaging and printing enables manufacturers to enhance the value of their brands and meet the needs of consumers through the packaging of their products. Product packaging not only requires beautiful appearance, but also must provide manufacturers with the ability to display variable information content to consumers. In addition, the market will also request packaging and printing plants to provide low-cost consumer samples and a large number of test-market products. The conservative printing method is obviously too expensive in this short-lived consumption. The inkjet printing process is easy and the consumption cycle is short. When printing, you only need to use a computer to convert the original graphic information into the signal to be input, install the output of the main memory of the printing machine through the output, or store the image, text and layout program Unplug the disk from the computer and start inkjet printing installation, you can quickly print. Neither film nor printing plates are required, and printing information can be added and changed at any time. The complicated process of plate making, imposition, copying and printing are omitted, the printing cost is low, and the clean water-based ink used in inkjet printing will not form the purification of the printing environment. Therefore, more and more packaging and printing companies see the advantages of inkjet technology in the field of packaging, and use it to indirectly implement high quality on different packages such as plastic bottles, metal foils, special corrugated boxes and shaped corrugated cartons, labels, etc. Printing.
1. Inkjet printing of corrugated cardboard
Because the inkjet head of the inkjet printer does not contact the substrate, but transfers ink dots to the substrate through different inkjet methods, and no pressure is required, this printing method is related to the uneven corrugated cardboard printing It can better express its outstandingness. Inkjet printing provides a rational solution for completing short-term delivery, prolonging the operating cycle, and completing the minimum preparation and resumption period, and this processing solution can be successfully integrated into the packaging and consumption line, which is more suitable for corrugated cardboard printing consumption.
Sai Angel Company uses its unique Aprion (multi-array image black inkjet) technique to the field of corrugated cardboard printing, launched a wide-format corrugated cardboard digital inkjet printing processing solution-Sai Angel CORjet. The center of CORjet is a piezoelectric inkjet head that can be arranged in a variety of arrays and matching. The head is composed of 512 nozzles, which not only provides speed, quality and stability, but also ensures the copyability of the printed matter. CORjet takes only 5 minutes from finalizing to final product, the batch consumption rate can reach 79 sheets / hour, the thickness of the printed corrugated cardboard can reach 10mm, the maximum format can reach 1.55m × 3.2m, the printing speed of 150m2 / h, 600dpi Resolution and "two-passmode" print 29 full-format prints per hour.
2. Inkjet printing of paper mold packaging products
There are many irregularities on the structure of paper-molded packaging products, and the non-contact plateless imaging printing method of inkjet printing can reliably print on the surface of each unevenness of the paper-molded packaging products under the condition that the operation requirements vary widely. Clear text and patterns. The principle is to radiate huge ink droplets from one or more printing heads through the gap to the appearance of each paper molded product located on the consumer line to form the characters and patterns formed by the dot matrix. The printing machine is controlled by a micro processor The required text patterns are synchronized with the speed of the consumer line through the function of the sensor to ensure that each paper molded product can accurately print the requested graphic materials. The emission of ink is done by pressure or static electricity, and can be printed from bottom to top, top to bottom in the direction of the degree, perhaps from an unconstrained angle, and is particularly suitable for the appearance of paper mold packaging products with variable structural shapes. [next]
3. Label inkjet printing
Due to the increasingly fierce market competition, many consumer goods consumers have introduced new products with shorter and shorter cycles, and the rate of product packaging changes has become more frequent.
Therefore, consumers hope that label printing companies can print a small number of new designs and new labels at the fastest rate in the shortest time. Obviously, the conservative label printing method is difficult to meet customer requests. In this situation, inkjet printing equipment is gradually being used by label printing companies. For example, the DotrixModular inkjet printer developed by Agfa is specially designed for medium and short-run printing, on-demand printing and printing proofing, and it can face the label printing market. In addition to the advantages of the usual digital printing, DotrixModular has a printing speed of up to 907m2 / h when printing prints with a width of 63cm. In addition, the inkjet technique can also be used for the printing of RFID tag antennas. Compared with the conservative printing method, inkjet technology brings faster speed and lower cost to RFID label printing, the most important thing is to be able to reach a higher wiring density.
4. Inkjet printing on outer packaging
At present, more and more manufacturers have paid great attention to brand maintenance. In order to better maintain the brand, manufacturers have listed inkjet coding techniques as a counterfeit prevention technique for product packaging. Through special software, the inkjet printer can print different codes on each product. This technique is absolutely easy to apply, and the product can be traced without requiring major changes to the packaging method. Codes using inkjet techniques can be used to control product quality and external product tracking. The codes can include easy sequential codes, non-continuous codes, shadow codes, or machine-readable codes.
The inkjet printing technique of the British XAAR company has lost good use in the field of outer packaging coding. Its on-demand inkjet printing technique can place folded cardboard boxes and other substrates on a platform, and print or use them from above. The print head performs scanning and printing, or moves the platform under the fixed print head. This process means that the ink can be printed on any surface, and even on the convex and concave surfaces such as corrugated board, there is no issue. Based on XAAR's common grayscale printing techniques, XAAR Leopard print heads can provide reprints of approximately photographic quality, and are designed to print UV-curable inks, which can be printed on plastic products such as bottles, boxes and labels, thereby making the product packaging Converted into an efficient market promotion medium. [next]
Choice of inkjet ink
Ink is a very important part of inkjet printing, because it not only determines the quality of the inkjet image, but also determines the shape of the ink droplets and the reliability of the printing system. Water-based inks are usually used for perforated and non-coated printing materials, such as paper and cardboard; oil-based inks are suitable for printing on perforated materials, because it is dull through absorption, it is in the field of paper packaging The use is particularly prominent; solvent-based inks are more commonly used, such as sign printing and barcode printing; UV / EB curable inks are suitable for printing on various soft and rigid printing materials, such as corrugated cardboard, metal foil, etc. / EB ink cures faster under the action of UV light, so it has a higher durability.
Inkjet inks can be printed on a variety of packaging materials, such as glass, plastic, metal foil, plastic film, etc. It is an aspect to understand which inkjet technique is suitable for what type of data. In addition, whether the printed materials can be coated and printed Whether the materials have holes, whether the printed materials can absorb water, and the effect of the ink on the appearance of the printed materials will all affect the formulation of packaging and printing operations, the improvement of consumption efficiency and the improvement of investment return rate. Therefore, packaging and printing companies should choose corresponding inkjet inks according to different packaging materials.
The inkjet printing technique provides a new high-efficiency option for packaging and printing companies. It can achieve rapid conversion of graphics and timely delivery and consumption, and greatly wastes capital by increasing inventory. In the next 5 to 10 years, inkjet printing will become a mainstream technique and adopted by the packaging and printing industry, and will play an important role in the future product packaging market. From secondary packaging processing, such as outer packaging code printing, to the indirect printing of all-black images of primary packaging, inkjet printing is competing with a few conservative packaging printing methods, and together it is complementary to other packaging printing methods.
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