In the past decades, many enterprises have improved their production level by introducing and upgrading traditional or digital printing equipment. Major prepress and India China equipment manufacturers have also carried out many waves, and their R & D, production, sales channels, service and maintenance have formed a relatively mature operation system.
With the global economic adjustment, the rising cost of manpower and raw materials, the intensification of industrial competition and the rising demand of customers, printing enterprises have to start to re-examine the input and output of various production links in the factory to find out the relatively weak links that need to be optimized, and post printing is a very important aspect. More and more printers find that whether it is traditional offset printing or hot fried digital printing, its post printing is a link of development potential and urgent adjustment. In the past, the post press with low production efficiency, low product stability, single processing function and high dependence on manual work is turning to automation, intelligence, high efficiency and integration.
China has a large number of low-cost labor force, which has always been a major incentive for the neglect of post press equipment. However, with the changes of market development in recent years, the impact of labor transfer, the change of job selection demand of the new generation of employees, the rise of labor costs and other factors, Chinese enterprises begin to face more and more serious "labor shortage". At the same time, in response to the more rapid and changeable printing needs of the market, advanced printing equipment such as digital prepress CTP and high-speed printing press are more and more widely used. How to improve the post press production efficiency and improve the process level?
"Replacing labor with machinery" has become a development outlet that post press enterprises have to consider. In addition to improving production efficiency and reducing labor cost, the post press integrated online operation can better solve the problem of single operation function, and can realize the diversified processing needs of printing products.
Various challenges force the leaders of printing enterprises to make changes: either give up the post press and outsource it to specialize in pre press and printing; Or strengthen the post press link and improve the whole printing production chain. There is also an obvious tendency in equipment investment: intelligent and automatic post press equipment is becoming more and more popular. Therefore, the current situation of China's post press processing market can be simply summarized as follows: in the transformation, it is changing from manual and semi-automatic to automation and intelligence. The degree of automation is gradually improving, and gradually forms a process equivalent to and matching the pre press and printing technology.
At the beginning of the rise of CTP technology, it was despised by many people as a new gadget with falsely high price, which is still far away from us. With the development of the market, the proportion of short version business is increasing. The huge profit space of CTP technology has attracted many plate companies and plate making equipment manufacturing companies to invest a lot of human and material resources in technology development, which has rapidly improved and promoted CTP technology, and the maturity of technology and the white heat of competition have also rapidly reduced the use cost, It further promotes the use of CTP technology.
Today's post press intelligent technology is somewhat similar to that of CTP. Of course, CTP technology is only a single technology, and the market usage is very huge. There are many kinds of post press equipment, and there are great differences in the value of equipment, which brings some difficulties to the R & D and promotion of post press intelligent equipment. However, the market determines the demand. With the increasingly obvious trend of short printing and the rapid promotion of digitization and intelligence of printing technology, it is only a matter of time for the wide application of post press intelligent equipment. On the other hand, with the rapid increase of domestic labor cost, as a labor-intensive processing link in the printing production chain, the intellectualization of post press processing is an inevitable choice.
Relevant people believe that at present, the domestic printing industry has really ushered in a period of change, the era of high profit in the printing industry has gone forever, and the era of low profit in printing has come. The continuous downturn of the domestic economy in the past two years has caused a double blow to the printing industry: on the one hand, the volume of orders has shrunk and the type of orders has also changed; On the other hand, it causes shortage of funds, increases the difficulty of credit and lengthens the customer collection cycle. In order to keep their orders and ensure the normal progress of production, all printing enterprises are making strange moves. How to win in this battle? Only by using the advanced technology of the industry, changing the production mode and forming a new force of printing production, can we stand at the "tuyere" of the printing industry.
