Overseas printing industry trends

Continuation of the last four, 12-color waterless offset printing machine It is reported that the Highway Printing Company in London, England has used the Diamond 3000 sheet-fed printing press produced by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan for waterless offset printing. The printing press is a 12-color machine with an inverted structure. The maximum speed is 13,000, and the overturn speed is 11,000.
5. Color laser printer The color laser printer manufactured by Canon, Japan, is Model Lasershot LBP-2810. It is based on a four-string vertical engine developed by the company. It can output both color and black and white proofs with 22 sheets per minute. Because of the adoption of electromagnetic induction heating and fixing technology, the heating time is shortened. Its price is about 440,000 yen.
6. Demand for CTP in the Japanese market Global printing companies have introduced CTPs up to 6,000 units, and there are an estimated 600 in Japan, which has reached about 10% of Imagesetter. In the introduction of CTP in Japan, the most important consideration is to use its automation to achieve labor-saving and provincial humanization. To cope with this demand, the DS DT-R8600 and Creo Lotem Quantum 840 were filled with 100 sheets × 5 sets of multi-cassette boxes, enabling unmanned operation overnight.
Reducing the price of the system and the price of the media is also a major demand. In terms of thermal sensitivity, due to the competition of many companies such as KPG, Fujifilm and Mitsubishi Chemical, the trend towards lower prices tends to be stronger, thereby increasing cost accounting and the actual price of the system. The decline in maintenance prices is very significant. If the market expands further, the market impact will be considerable if the Souvenir Sheet machine falls below 10 million yen; in the case of UV, it must consider increasing the number of production units.
Since CTP has become popular, there is a great need for quality differences between companies that have CTP. In response, Creo has made the FM screening technology more sophisticated based on the Square Spot technology. The Fujifilm company used 2400dpl to achieve the equivalent of 300 lines of high quality prints, which is taking into account the visual characteristics of humans is to rely on 300 micron gray steps to identify this factor, the system is the use of nine patterns, the average density The tone reproduction is improved from 64 to 256 tones. In addition, Dainippon Screen will display Fair Dot in the name of SSECTRA. This is a hybrid type of AM/FM.
In short, what kind of workflow is the key to the user's point of view.
7. Eye-catching non-wood pulp paper From the perspective of global environmental protection, the call for the use of non-wood paper and recycled paper to replace wood pulp paper is increasing. In this voice, Japan and the United States are particularly active. They promote Kenaf, a fertile annual grass plant, usually called Kenaf or kenaf. Kenaf is native to Africa and Asia, up to 3 to 4 meters in length, and can grow in six months if the soil conditions are right. The harvest yields 20 tons per hectare. Its seeds, leaves, skin, roots, xylem sap, etc. can all be used. It can be said that it is the most effective raw material to replace wood paper.
Kenaf is cultivated in the offshore areas of Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, northern Japan, the United States, and southern Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian.
In addition, as a non-wood paper supplement material, that is, the use of recycled paper. Japan entered this research very early on. Japan's recovery rate for waste paper is about 56%, and its utilization rate is 56.1%, which is the highest level in the world.
The waste paper processing process is carried out in four steps. The first step is to make the waste paper loose. The second step is to remove the drug and dust in the pulp. The third step is to deink the paper fiber. The fiber is bleached.
The use rate of waste paper made of recycled paper is 70% or more. At present, more than 40% of the printing paper used by printing plants in Japan is recycled paper. The key issue in the promotion of the use of recycled paper is that the processing cost of recycled paper is higher than that of ordinary paper. As long as the price of recycled paper and ordinary paper is flattened, promotion will be promoted. Use will be fun.
Eight, ultraviolet laser CTP
The UV-loaded CTP, sold by Japan's Agfa Geveart, is called Palladio. It uses an ultraviolet laser diode with a wavelength of 405 nm. This single-beam planar mode corresponds to a small-split Platesetter. The resolution is 1200dpi, 2400dpi, and 3000dpi. Its design is to integrate a box that can hold 50 boards and an automatic developing machine. The model is compact, and it can be automatically performed in the bright room from the supply to the development. For different specifications, procedures can also be taken. According to demand and in order to incorporate the two kinds of internal installation hole program.