Packaging is ubiquitous – A Brief Discussion on Printing and Environmental Protection in the Packaging Industry

Throughout history,From the emergence of commodity trading that moment, product packaging emerged as The Times require,It crept into our lives. It is everywhere and gorgeous. It can be a container for storing firewood, rice, oil and salt, or an indispensable brand gimmick and selling point in marketing promotion.

Today, Products’ packaging has become the most frequently encountered and eye-catching thing in our lives.

Packaging is not only used to protect the products, what is more importantly,it is an important communication medium for to publicizing products.In other words,it is the most important DNA component in the process of transforming from product to commodity to consumption.

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PACKAGING DESIGN

Exquisite packaging design, unique printing technology can instantly catch people’s eyes, and the subsequent publicity and consumption of the powerful effect is often shocking.

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WHAT IS PRINTING?

Printing is an important way to transform the graphic design into real objects and bring more visual effects to the public.The gorgeous printing process is an indispensable part of making products more eye-catching. If exquisite packaging design is a stepping stone to attracting buyers’ eyes, then the printing process is the finishing touch to catch the eye. The printing process is a general term for the printing and post-press process.

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Printing

Printing is the picture and text through template making, ink, processing, and other processes to transfer the color of picture and text to the need for printing products, and batch copy content. In other words, the copying process in which the coloring agent/color material (like, ink) is transferred to the need for printing products using an analog or digital image carrier.

Printing methods mainly include planographic printing, intaglio printing, relief printing, screen printing, heat transfer process, ink-jet printing, and so on.

Among them, planographic printing, intaglio printing, relief printing, and screen printing are known as the four great printing methods, are the most important printing methods.

  • Planographic Printing

Planographic Printing is a printing method that can clearly restore the color, contrast and level of the original with high precision and is the most common paper printing method at present.

Advantages:

  1. High printing accuracy, is the most ideal printing method for photo and picture printing;
  2. Convenient plate making, high efficiency;
  3. Accurate color setting;
  4. Suitable for mass printing
  5. High-cost performance.

Disadvantages:

  1. only suitable for plane printing, not curved surface, irregular surface printing;
  2. only suitable for high flatness materials, such as paper, PVC, etc., not suitable for soft plastics, etc.;
  3. the printing material must have a certain thickness, is not suitable for too

thin material; Metal, rubber, wood, and other special materials cannot be printed.

Suitable for posters, instructions, newspapers, packages, books, magazines, calendars and other related color printed matter.

  • Intaglio Printing

Intaglio Printing is a direct method of printing. The inks contained in the gravure pits are directly imprinted on the substrate, and the shade of the printed picture is determined by the size and depth of the pits. An intaglio printing plate is composed of pits corresponding to the text and text of the original manuscript and the surface of the plate.

Advantages:

  1. Printing material is very wide;
  2. Hick ink layer, uniform ink color, bright color strong expression;
  3. Digital electroengraving, high printing quality, long service life;
  4. Printing resistance is high, printing is very stable;
  5. Widely used water-based ink, green environmental protection;
  6. Gravure printing equipment’s comprehensive processing ability is strong, and can be attached to other processes.

Disadvantages:

  1. The plate base cost is high, the cycle is long, the plate is difficult to modify and adjust;
  2. The plate-making process will produce environmental pollution;
  3. Picture printing accuracy is lower than offset printing.

Intaglio printing is suitable for printing high-quality and expensive prints, whether color or black and white pictures, intaglio printing results can be comparable to photography.

The plate is expensive, and the quantity of printing must be large, so it is less used in the common method. Suitable for printing negotiable securities, stocks, gift certificates, commercial credit certificates or stationery, etc.

  • Relief Printing

Relief printing is a type of printing in which the ink on the plate is printed directly onto the paper by applying pressure to the ink on the raised print. Because the plate is in direct contact with the paper and has a certain pressure, it can leave a dent or a thick edge of ink, giving a strong and powerful impression, and is often used in comic magazines and other coarse paper.

Advantages:

  1. High printing pressure, special indentation effect;
  2. Heavy ink, bright color printing;
  3. The material of printing is strong adaptability, in addition to paper can print iron products;
  4. It can be used to make curved print

Disadvantages:

  1. Plate-making, and revision flexibility is poor;
  2. Image printing accuracy is low;
  3. High basic printing cost.
  • Screen Printing

Screen Printing is the printing plate on the part of the hollow so that the ink through the mesh transfer printing method. When the substrate is glass, metal, plastic and other materials, or bottle, jar, and other curved surfaces, or has surfaced effect and other special printing needs, most will use screen printing.

Advantage:

  1. Strong printability, can be applied to any material;
  2. Heavy ink, bright color printing;
  3. Can be printed on curved surfaces or multi-faceted objects.

Disadvantages:

  1. Compared with offset printing efficiency is low, and plate life is limited;
  2. Color error is relatively large;
  3. Picture accuracy is limited.

Post-Press Finishing

Post-Press Finishing is a general term for the process of reprocessing the printed matter after printing in order to meet the requirements of use and improve the appearance quality. With the rapid development of the paper packaging industry, while paper packaging tends to be more elaborated, its post-press processing industry is becoming more and more complex.

The post-press process mainly includes the following:

  • Film Mulching(Laminating)

Film Mulching is a printing processing technology that plastic film is covered on the surface of the printed matter, and the adhesive is heated and pressurized to bond them together to form the paper and plastic into one.

Classification: Matt and glossy lamination;

Features: The product of the glossy lamination has a bright surface and strong expressiveness, and is mostly used in product prints; The surface of the product covered with matte lamination is non-reflective and elegant and is mostly used for image printing.

  • Foil-Stamping

Foil-Stamping is the use of hot pressure transfer principle, the aluminum layer of anodized aluminum transferred to the surface of the substrate to form a special metal effect, the main material of foil-stamping is anodized aluminum foil, so it is also called anodized hot stamping.

Classification: According to the different colors of electrochemical aluminum foil, foil-stamping is divided into gold hot stamping , silver hot stamp, hologram silver hot stamp, rose gold, and so on;

Features: The pattern is clear, beautiful, and colorful.

  • Embossing(concave-convex)

Concave-convex embossing is a special technique of decorative processing on the surface of printed matter. It is a process of using a concave-convex mold to plastically deform the substrate of the printed matter under a certain pressure, and then perform artistic processing on the surface of the printed matter.

Classification: Cheap plain etching plate and expensive laser engraving plate.

Features: Embossing all kinds of convex graphics and patterns show different shades of patterns, with an obvious floating sense, increasing the three-dimensional sense and artistic appeal of printed matter.

  • UV-Coating

UV-Coating is a screen printing process. It is decorative partial glazing on the surface of the printed item so that the partial part of the picture is presented with high brightness.

Classification: Thickened UV, frosted UV, colorful UV, glass beads, sprinkled colorful powder, etc.

Features: It can present a variety of artistic special effects on the surface of the printed matter, which is beautiful, high-end luxury, strong three-dimensional sense, strong embossing sense, comfortable touch, and good decorative effect, which makes the printed matter more exquisite and has a wide range of applications.

  • Pro-Cure

The principle of the Pro-Cure processing is to use the “mutual repulsion” principle of the coating type UV varnish and the under printing UV varnish (ink fountain type UV varnish) to achieve concave-convex texture and different gloss effect at one-time, that is, without the bottom Apply varnish to the oil to achieve a bright light effect, and apply varnish to the base oil to achieve a matte effect.

Classification: Printing surface to form local high gloss and local frosted low gloss areas.

Features: Two completely different gloss effects achieve high-contrast effects on local images, Graphics with glossy mirror finish are embellished and highlighted.

In addition to the above several post-printing arts, there are varnishing, die-cutting technology, lettering, crushing,etc.

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Printing and Environmental Protection

With the continuous and rapid development of the world’s industry, the industrial pollution produced by it is also shocking. At the same time, more and more people begin to care about our living environment and realize the importance of environmental protection for sustainable development. For printing ink, which plays an important role in quality control,” green ink “has become the development trend of ink products, and green printing comes into being.

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What is Green printing?

Green printing refers to the use of environmentally friendly materials and processes, less pollution in the printing process, saving resources and energy, printing is easy to recycle after waste, can be naturally degraded, and has little impact on the ecological environment.
Green printing requirements and environmental coordination, including the use of environmentally friendly printing materials, clean printing production process, the safety of printed matter to users, and the recycling of printed matter processing and recyclable, printed matter from the selection of raw materials, production, use, recycling, and another whole life cycle should meet the requirements of environmental protection.

The characteristics of green printing:

Reduction and moderation, non-toxic and harmless, pollution-free and pollution-free are the three main characteristics of green printing.


The green printing industry chain mainly includes green printing materials, printing graphic design, green plate making process, green printing process, green post-press processing process, environment-friendly printing equipment, printing waste recycling, and regeneration, etc. Through the implementation of green printing, the whole supply chain system including printing materials, processing, application, and consumption can enter a virtuous cycle.

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