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Aug 19,2025
The market size and development trend of China's printing press industry
The market size of China's printing press industry shows certain fluctuations, and the development trend revolves around digitization, environmental protection, intelligence, and other aspects. Here is a specific introduction: Market size: According to statistics, the market size of China's printing machinery industry in 2023 is 48.32 billion yuan. The market size of China's printing machinery industry in 2024 is 30.568 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 3.4%. However, from the perspective of import and export, China's printing machinery imports will reach 2.029 billion US dollars in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 6%; The export amount was 3.687 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 16.05%. development trend Accelerated digital transformation: With the maturity of digital printing technologies such as inkjet, laser, and electrostatic photography, printing machines can achieve faster printing speeds, higher printing quality, and lower operating costs. The market share of digital printing machines is expected to gradually increase. Environmental protection requirements have been raised: The concept of environmental protection has prompted the printing press industry to shift towards using fewer chemicals, such as non-alcoholic ink and water-based ink, to reduce the impact on the environment. Printing presses that meet environmental requirements will be more competitive in the market. Intelligent and networked development: the printing machine has an obvious trend of intelligence and networking. Through Internet connection, remote monitoring, fault diagnosis and software upgrading can be realized, equipment management and maintenance efficiency can be improved, and operating costs can be reduced. Personalized and customized demand growth: The market's demand for customized products continues to increase, and printing machines will pay more attention to personalization and customization. Through advanced digital printing technology, small batch and multi variety rapid printing can be achieved. Intensifying market competition: The competitive landscape of the domestic printing machinery manufacturing industry is becoming increasingly fierce, and enterprises need to continuously improve their technological level, product quality, and service capabilities in order to gain an advantage in market competition.
What are the advantages of flexographic pre printing
In the case of mass production, flexographic pre printing has the following unique advantages: 1. Fast printing speed and high production efficiency. The printing speed can reach 300m/min, and the printing speed with UV ink can reach 500m/m-600m/min. It is also equipped with a fast roller changing system, which automatically picks up materials without stopping the machine to achieve completely uninterrupted printing. 2. The pre printed cardboard box has precise overprinting, minimal color difference, and high printing quality. Due to the uniform printing pressure of the high-precision satellite flexographic printer, which is not affected by the height of the corrugations, the printing quality of the solid, lines, and text is very good. Vector variable frequency motors can be used to achieve synchronous control through PLC controllers, ensuring constant tension of printed materials at different speeds and temperatures, thereby maintaining the stability of overprinting during high-speed printing, and achieving precise and perfect multi-color overprinting of cardboard boxes. The lateral shrinkage of paper is small. 3. The closed ink scraper system ensures optimal ink volume for the mesh roller and printing plate, improves the ink transfer function of the short ink path system, reduces solvent evaporation, and ensures consistent ink color. 4. The cardboard box has high strength and good flatness. After roll to roll printing, the printed color rolls can be directly placed at the hanging paper station and bonded with corrugated paper to form cardboard. They can be directly made into single cardboard boxes through a computerized cross cutting machine, fully utilizing the automatic and high-speed advantages of printing and corrugated machines. The corrugated paper is not compressed or deformed, and the strength of the cardboard box can be increased by 30%, thereby reducing the number of paper grams and lowering the cost of corrugated cardboard boxes. 5. Due to the flexibility of the printing plate, the requirements for the surface smoothness of the paper are not as strict as those for gravure printing, which can reduce the cost of paper and thus reduce the cost of corrugated cardboard boxes.
What is CI flexographic printing
Satellite flexographic printer is a high-precision printing equipment that adopts a central impression cylinder structure. It is mainly used for soft packaging, corrugated paper pre printing, and label printing. It can adapt to mass production of materials such as paper, plastic film, metal foil, etc., and has a market share of about 70% in Europe and America. Its core advantages lie in a printing accuracy of ± 0.075 millimeters, a printing speed of up to 600 meters per minute, and the use of a closed dual scraper ink delivery system and laser engraved metal ceramic mesh rollers to achieve precise ink volume control. This device achieves rapid plate changing through gearless direct drive technology, equipped with an automatic tension control system and intelligent temperature control module, and supports multi-color printing, glazing, and die-cutting composite processes to be completed in one go. Domestic applications are concentrated in the fields of cardboard pre printing and plastic flexible packaging. Enterprises such as Xi'an Aerospace Huayang and Wenzhou Changhong have launched domestic models with a width of 1.62 meters and a speed of 450 meters per minute, but high-end equipment still relies on imported core components [1] [3]. The combination of environmentally friendly water-based ink and flexible resin plate material combines low cost and low pollution characteristics, and future technological upgrades will further expand the market share of domestic equipment.
Characteristics of Flexographic Printing
1. Low investment, quick returns, and high returns. The price of flexographic printing machines is much lower than gravure printing machines and offset printing machines of the same color group, and it integrates printing, die-cutting, and glazing, achieving multiple processes in one go without the need to purchase additional post-processing equipment, with a high return on investment. 2. The device has a simple structure and easy operation. The simplified structure of the flexographic printing machine makes it easy to operate and improves production efficiency. 3. High production efficiency. Flexographic printing uses roll materials, which can achieve double-sided printing and complete processes such as line polishing, hot stamping, die-cutting, waste disposal, and winding, shortening the production cycle, saving manpower, material resources, and financial resources, reducing production costs, and improving economic benefits. 4. Widely available printing materials. Flexographic printing has a wide range of applications, including paper, plastic film, aluminum foil, adhesive paper, etc. 5. The quality of printed materials is excellent. The printing accuracy reaches 150 lines/inch, with vivid colors, rich layers, and excellent visual effects, suitable for packaging printing needs. 6. Strong environmental performance. Using water-based or solvent based ink, non-toxic and harmless, in line with green production standards, suitable for food packaging. 7. The economic benefits are significant. The combination of flexographic printing machines and post press equipment shortens the production cycle and reduces costs. Flexographic printing costs only 10% -20% of gravure printing, reduces ink consumption by 1/3, saves 40% energy, and has a scrap rate of less than 1% -2%, far lower than gravure and offset printing, effectively reducing production costs.
The difference in application between flexographic printing and offset printing
There are some differences in the application of flexographic printing and offset printing: Different materials: Flexographic printing is suitable for printing materials such as film, paper, cardboard, etc., while offset printing is suitable for printing high-quality printed materials such as books, magazines, packaging boxes, etc. Different color quantities: Flexographic printing has a faster printing speed, but its requirements for color quantity and color reproduction are not as high as offset printing. Offset printing can accurately reproduce multiple colors and achieve high-quality printing effects. Different scope of application: Flexographic printing is suitable for printing large and printed products, such as food packaging bags, medical packaging bags, and plastic bags. Offset printing is suitable for printing small and long cycle products, such as books, magazines, picture books, and high-quality packaging boxes. Cost difference: Flexographic printing is usually more cost-effective than offset printing because the equipment and material costs for flexographic printing are relatively lower. However, offset printing can achieve better printing results, so in some cases it may be considered as a more advanced printing method. There are also some differences in the use of ink between flexographic printing and offset printing: Different types of ink: The ink used in flexographic printing is usually water-based ink with better leveling performance, which can better adapt to flexible plates with better elasticity, while the ink used in offset printing is usually oil-based ink with higher viscosity, which can better adapt to plates with higher hardness. Ink viscosity is different: flexographic printing has lower ink viscosity and requires higher printing pressure to achieve printing effect, while offset printing has higher ink viscosity and can achieve printing effect with smaller printing pressure. Ink adhesion is different: water-based ink for flexographic printing has lower adhesion, especially when printing non absorbent substrates that require additional treatment such as corona discharge, while oil-based ink for offset printing has higher adhesion and requires additional treatment. Generally, flexographic printing can be printed on both corrugated paper and flexible packaging, while offset printing is usually applied to corrugated paper box packaging
The difference between flexographic printing and regular printing machines
Traditional printing machines use rigid printing plates (such as offset printing plates and gravure printing plates), which transfer graphics and text through mechanical pressure. The ink transfer path is from the printing plate to the blanket and then to the substrate.