Why the printing company chooses to convert from other methods to flexo printing

In the field of label printing, many label printing companies have begun to turn to the addition of flexographic printing presses to print labels by printing labels from gap-type rotary embossing machines and all-round embossing machines.

In the flexible packaging industry, gravure to flexo printing has always been the main battlefield of environmentalism and effect theory. Everyone agrees with the environmental friendliness of flexo printing, but it is difficult to agree with the printing effect of flexo printing. However, in the self-adhesive industry, gravure to flexo printing is very optimistic in printing, and it is also very economical.

The reason for embossing to flexo

1. The customer sample obtained by the label printing company is a flexographic sample. However, at this stage, the embossed mesh is not as good as the flexo, the color is not as bright as the flexo, and the ghost can't be cured; the combination printing on the embossing machine is limited, and it is not easy to do whatever it pleases. The ground determines the printing color sequence of screen printing and cold ironing. Therefore, rotating embossing and flexographic printing samples are too hard. Over time, companies will have a desire to buy flexo presses.

2. The production capacity of the embossing machine can't keep up, not only the large quantity of orders can't be produced, but the total cost is relatively higher, so it needs to be embossed to flexo.

3. The quality stability of the embossed label is greatly affected by the boot master, and as long as the parameters of the flexo printing machine are set correctly, the quality of the printed product will not be far away, and the colors of the printed products produced by different batches are the same. From the perspective of technical stability and management science, companies also need to emboss and turn flexo.

In principle, no embossed product can be converted into flexo. However, technically speaking, because the embossing has the advantages of thick ink color and not easy to block the plate, some embossed samples have deep ink and dots in the ink color, or a gradient color with great contrast, and the embossing is used with the flexo printing. It is not easy to achieve, and it takes a lot of effort to avoid the weakness of flexo printing in prepress design. Most of the rest of the embossed prints are not problematic. Because, in fact, flexo printing is also a kind of embossing, and also uses the resin version, but the hardness is softer than the embossed printing plate. Although the printing pressures of the two are not the same, they are relatively close, and all have edge imprints, but the printing dots of the embossing are mostly hollow, and the flexo printing is solid. If this is not a professional and is observed with a magnifying glass, it is generally difficult to distinguish the difference between the two. Therefore, it is relatively easy to exchange orders between embossing and flexo.

The reason for label offset printing to flexo

1. Offset printing once occupied more than half of China's printing industry. Many companies have already used offset printing to print packaging boxes before they do the self-adhesive label business. Therefore, there are still customers who take the trademark effect on the packaging box to require the label printing company to print the same effect label, which is one of the typical cases of offset printing to flexo printing.