Introduction to gravure printing technology for printing cardboard boxes

Introduction to gravure printing technology for printing cardboard boxes

Gravure printing adopts the short ink path direct printing method, and its products have the advantages of thick ink layer, full ink color, strong three-dimensional sense, bright colors, rich layers, high clarity, and high glossiness. Generally, the printing quality of printed materials can reach up to 30 lines, with the best printing quality and stable printing quality. In addition, the high performance of various systems in gravure printing machines has unique advantages in printing high-end boutique packaging. Gravure printing cardboard boxes mainly use pre printing technology.

Currently, electronic engraving metal plate rollers are mainly used for gravure printing plates, which have significantly reduced production cycles and costs compared to plate etching, approaching or even lower than flexographic printing. Moreover, high-speed wide width gravure printing machines can also be produced domestically, with prices only 13% of imported flexographic printing machines, making them more suitable for the reality of packaging enterprises in China. The main equipment used for pre printing intaglio cardboard boxes is a large-scale unit type intaglio printing machine, which is equipped with a corrugated paper production line computer cross cutting machine and longitudinal cutting machine with photoelectric detection function. However, the production of intaglio printing plates is relatively complex, the cycle is long, the price is high, and the intaglio printing process technology is relatively complex and involves many processes. Moreover, the investment in the production line is relatively large, which is currently unaffordable for most small and medium-sized enterprises in China.

Introduction to gravure printing technology for printing cardboard boxes