High-tech automatic flexo printing
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The method of printing carton packaging is increasingly diversified and modern with many printing techniques such as offset printing, flexographic printing, silkscreen printing ... to help bring printing products with high quality, accuracy,
Carton printing technology is increasingly plentiful and modern with many printing techniques such as: Flexo printing, Offset printing, silkscreen printing ... to help bring high quality products, accurately, each printing technique suitable for each requirement. of customers such as: printing in small quantity cartons, printing in cartons requires sharp printing quality ...
Producing carton boxes has to go through many stages such as running corrugated paper, sheet paper, laminating, slitting boxes, printing, gluing boxes ...
1. Flexo Printing Cartons - What is Flexo Printing? Flexo printing techniques:
The Flexo carton printing technique is a direct printing method due to the embossed print, the printing plate is supplied with ink by the anilox shaft. Anilox axis is a metal axis, its surface is engraved with a small concave. During the printing process, the axis is partially embedded in the ink tray, the ink will fall into the cells on the surface of the shaft, the ink on the surface will be brushed off by the ink knife. The plate and shaft then contact the shaft and receive ink from small cells on the surface of the printing roller.
Flexo carton printer
- Flexo printing mold: Made of photopolymer plastic. The printing mold can be fabricated by photochemical method, CTP or laser etching, and then attached to the printing roller using double-sided tape or a magnetic field. The choice of the printing plate (thickness, hardness, number of layers) depends on the printed material (paper, carton or film).
- Applications: Flexo printing is often used to print labels, stickers, stamps, labels, labels, carton packaging ... and print on many other special materials such as: fabric, wood, printing on polymer film ...
2. Find out before investing in a flexo carton printer
- Customers need to understand their needs before investing in flexo printers such as the printing size, the largest carton size they need to print (the largest size of the finished product box), the products that print in several colors, the printing speed (output printing), the product has any special requirements such as die grips, grooves and different product special requirements.
Normally, the carton flexo printer consists of many combinations to form 1 machine, when the factory is located, the factory will produce according to the needs of the customer, for example: the customer only needs to print 1 Color with complement and round die, the machine will have 4 combinations, including: wave, print, complement and round die
Installed on 2 fixed rails to move and separate parts of the machine structure to mount prints, or mount die or adjust knife ...
In case a customer needs more than one color, adding one color combination for each color.
Currently, when investing in flexo printing machines, most units will choose to include automatic billet output to save workers at picking up finished billets after printing.
The above is a brief introduction to the inflexo for customers to refer to before planning to invest. Customers who need to clarify more details and specific features please contact Viet Dat Co., Ltd., you can contact the hotline: 0913 238 526 for advice and quotation.