Inspiration from ink

1. The development of computer-to-plate technology will promote the progress of China's printing and ink industry. The rapid development of computer technology has greatly promoted the progress of the printing and ink industries. At the druPa2000 exhibition, many manufacturers have demonstrated new types of direct plate-making machines. CTP machines have seen a great growth both in variety and quantity compared to the past. At present, CTP technology is not only used in offset printing, but also applied in flexo, gravure, and screen printing. Undoubtedly, the application of computer-to-plate technology will greatly promote the transformation and progress of China's printing and ink industry.
2. European packaging printing inks pay attention to environmental protection All people who have visited European countries such as Germany, Switzerland, France, and the United Kingdom can feel that European countries have placed environmental protection in a very important position at the same time as their economic development. For example, in 1998, Germany established the “Packaging Law” to ensure that the development of packaging, printing, and ink is compatible with environmental protection in the form of state laws and regulations. Another example is that Europe has established a rigorous system of standardized container recycling in the management of its waste recovery and prevention. It fundamentally solves the environmental hazards of various waste materials and ensures the cleanliness of the environment.
European ink manufacturers generally start with preparations to conduct investigations and formulate a series of anti-pollution measures, such as production processes, equipment design, installation of confined, vacuum and chambers, and other anti-fouling measures at the factory. In the process of preparation, it is made clear that even the purchase methods of toxic solvents (such as benzene, xylene, etc.) used in ink production have a series of regulations. This point is worth our ink manufacturing industry for reference.
3. The color of packaging printing ink in developed countries is widely used in the United States PANTONE standard At the drupa exhibition we visited the booths of the US FLINT Ink Company, the Japan Toyo Ink Company, the Swiss SICPA Company, and the Dutch VANSON Ink Company, and found out the quality of their ink products. The degree of standardization is very high. Both the intrinsic quality of the product and its color standard are strictly in accordance with ISO international standards. It is understood that the above-mentioned ink merchants have passed the PANTONE standard certification not only in their home countries but also in some developed countries in the world in order to occupy the domestic market of publishing, printing and packaging printing inks. In view of this, China should also speed up the development of PANTONE color standard ink products and increase market share.
4. Rapid development of thermosetting web offset printing inks It can be seen from Drupa 2000 that heat-set web offset printing inks will form large-scale production. At the exhibition, a thermoset rotary press with a speed of up to 50,000 marks was exhibited. The heat-set rotary printing ink used in this machine will have a large amount of consumption. In order to meet the requirements for the use of high-speed rotary offset presses, the development of high-quality thermoset rotary offset inks as soon as possible is one of the topics that ink manufacturers will develop in the future.
5. UV ink and bronzing technology become hot spots We visited the drupa exhibition and visited BASF in Germany and FIELDPACKAGING in the United Kingdom. We found that the use of synthetic ink (gold cardboard, silver cardboard) has reduced the amount of printing ink, UV (UV ) Ink and UV varnish and bronzing techniques are increasingly used. BASF, Germany, pointed out that the future trend is to focus on the market with UV ink technology. British FIELD PACKAGING company began to use UV ink in color packaging and printing since 1983 in order to reduce environmental pollution.
6, should accelerate the development and manufacture of ink In order to ensure the cleanliness of the air and the health of the human body, the United States as the world's developed ink industry countries, as early as the 1980s to legislate to limit the use of organic solvents and toxic substances in the ink and in Emissions in the air, and a series of related regulations have been formulated to restrict the use of contaminated inks in printed matters. According to reports, the consumption of ink in the United States now accounts for 30% to 40% of the total consumption of ink. In particular, newspaper printing has long used non-toxic soyoil-based inks. The non-toxic and non-polluting development trend of the world ink industry has affected and promoted the development of China's ink industry. Rapid development and development of solvent-free inks is imperative. China should accelerate the development and production of pollution-free inks (water-based gravure inks). , Flexographic Ink) products to meet the needs of the packaging and printing industry for green packaging.
7, the preparation of a variety of spot color inks and growing market demand can be seen from drupa2000, the preparation and production of a variety of spot color ink is more and more attention by ink manufacturers and printers. In recent years, the color standard of packaging and decoration printing has become increasingly standard. The packaging of product packaging, especially some brand-name products, has become increasingly demanding for spot color inks. Ink manufacturers with their own strength have developed or formulated spot color inks. For example, the FLINT company in the United States and VANSON in the Netherlands have connected the equipment for preparing spot color inks with computers, making the preparation of complicated spot inks simple and easy. The ink industry in China should also develop the computer preparation process of spot ink as soon as possible.
8. Increased demand for screen ink With the development of packaging and outdoor advertising printing industry, the market demand for screen ink has also increased year by year. The main products are screen printing inks such as metal, paper, glass and plastics. Currently, domestic screen printing equipment has broken the backward status of most manual printers. In some regions, screen printing machines with a higher degree of automation have been added. Therefore, the demand for screen printing inks is increasing in China. .
9, the development of special ink can not be ignored With the rapid development of packaging and decorating printing, special needs of more and more ink products, such as ink jet, security ink, thermal transfer printing ink, sublimation ink, fluorescent ink, pearl ink and so on. Despite the high cost of such products, the demand is increasing. Because of the high added value of specialty inks, there will be very good profits.