Driven by science and technology, printing and packaging equipment is constantly updated, which also lays a solid foundation for the coming of the green printing era.
China (Shanghai) International Printing Week has set up three special zones for flexographic printing enterprises, printing electronics, and paper-based art exhibition. Among them, the flexographic printing enterprise zone concentrated on the new achievements of the industrial application of flexographic printing technology in the industry. As a representative enterprise of flexographic printing, Shanghai Xinhua Printing Co., Ltd. displayed its books and periodicals of flexographic printing.
Shanghai Xinhua Printing Co., Ltd. is a designated printing enterprise of national books and periodicals, and a national enterprise that uses flexographic printing to print books and periodicals. In 2011, Shanghai Xinhua Printing Co., Ltd. undertook the key support project of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television - Textbook Flexographic Ink Printing Project. After five years of struggle, flexographic printing technology was applied to book printing for the first time at home and abroad, realizing the deep environmental protection of book printing.
Display of books and periodicals of flexographic printing
Why should we develop flexographic printing of books and periodicals? The reason is that flexographic printing uses a new type of water-based ink, which is harmless and pollution-free. Compared with the poisonous and harmful conditions allowed in the Technical Requirements for Environmental Labeling Products Printing Part: Offset Printing, ink printing is more in line with environmental requirements. It does not contain lead, mercury and other heavy metals and VOC gases in offset printing ink, and is the most environmentally friendly printing method.
Fish Culture with Ink
At the end of 2015, the China Printing Standards Committee and the Printing Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Publishing launched the drafting and demonstration of the Requirements and Test Methods for the Process Control of Flexible Printing of Green Printed Books and Magazines, which shows that the country attaches great importance to the flexible printing of books and periodicals.
At present, flexographic printing has higher requirements for technology and higher cost than offset printing, so it is still difficult to promote it. However, with the increasingly stringent requirements of the state on environmental protection, flexographic printing will also usher in better development. If flexographic books and periodicals can have their own unique flexographic logo, they can be different from offset printed books and periodicals. In addition, as the cost of flexographic printing is higher than that of offset printing, if flexographic books and periodicals can realize differential pricing, it will also promote the development of flexographic printing.
2016 is the first year of the 13th Five Year Plan. Green and environmental protection is the inevitable development direction of the printing industry in the future. As the most environmentally friendly printing method, flexographic printing can not only bring us more environmentally friendly prints, a healthier life, but also stronger competitiveness.