A plan to bring profits to the printing house

A plan to bring profits to the printing house

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After more than a month of planning work, I was co-organized by the Graphic Arts Society. On September 23rd (Saturday), the first seminar was held at the City of Kwun Tong in Hong Kong. There were more than 60 guests on the day. , from printing houses, output centers, newspaper groups and government departments.

At the beginning of the seminar, Mr. Cheng Zhonghao, the managing director of Kobe Printing Equipment (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd., gave a welcome speech: "How to improve the production process, how to save costs, how to get more business, and thus increase profits. This is the printing company. We are working hard every day, so we invite Mr. Zhong Jinrong to plan a seminar for us. The topic of this seminar is “How does CTP bring profits to the printing house?” Now, I will give the time to Mr. Zhong Jinrong to give us a lecture: (1) What is the profit of investing in CTP, (2) Introduction to CTP technology and equipment.

CTP's benefits for printing

The computer directly plated out the traditional film program, saving 5%~15% of prepress materials, saving imposition labor, saving space – including black room, imposition?, film storage. First calculate the cost savings of this process. The cost of each set of film and imposition is about HK$800. Each press is 12 sets of X per day on 28 days, for a total of 12 X 28 XHK$800=HK$268,800. In addition to film and imposition costs, there is also the cost of saving printing operations, reducing paper and ink waste due to faster printing time; for example, each four-color printing press has a labor cost of $400 per hour, and generally does not use CTP. And the CIP4 data is about 30~45 minutes. The machine, labor and material costs are about HK$600. If the CTP and CIP4 data is used, the time can be reduced by 1/3 to about HK$200; if each press is daily, 12 sets of X are counted on the 28th of each month, totaling 12X28XHK$200=HK$67,200.

CTP saves monthly print job costs for each press

· Film and Imposition save $268,800 per month

· Save $67,200 per month compared to the version time

· Monthly savings of $336,000

Further benefits

Eliminated the traditional film and manual imposition process, saving 15% of printing time, can increase productivity by 15%; improve the quality of plate imaging – 1%~99% dot/FM dot, which improves the quality of printing , can print higher quality prints, and get more business.

CTP classification

· Sort by size – 4 open, split, full, extra large

· Classification by imaging – photosensitive, thermal

· Classified by mechanical design – platform, inner drum, outer drum

CTP investment objectives

· Increase productivity

· cut costs

· Increase flexibility in production operations

· improve product quality

· Expand customer base

· Improve relationships with existing customers

Considerations for purchasing CTP

· Plate size

· Number of prints

· Will you use UV ink?

· The amount of edition required per day

· Choose the appropriate process to match

The importance of the workflow

After the refreshment time, Jin Ha's marketing manager Simon Ha explained the impact of the prepress process on production; Compose is a Hong Kong-based prepress process system software development company, mainly exported to Europe and the United States. The Asian side is dominated by Japan, South Korea and China. When he compares the CTP output device to a tank on the battlefield, the prepress workflow acts as a strategic commanding angle, so that the production capacity can be improved with proper prepress workflow.

Choose the benefits of Compose Express WorkFlow

(1) Modular combination design, which can be combined according to customer's work requirements. Various functions are displayed in image mode, including input (Input), file preflight (Preflighting), trapping (Trapping), dotted line operation (RIP), imposition (Imposition), single expression (ROOM) Proofing), workflow management (Jobmanagement) and output (Output), easy to operate;

(2) Open System, which can connect different types of output devices on the market;

(3) Customized approach for customers, which can be matched according to different types of printing plants, such as book printing, packaging and printing;

(4) Integrated with advanced technology,

(5) The popular working modes such as 1-bit Tiff process and PDF process can be adopted;

(6) Experienced in Asia font issue;

(7) Cost-effective.

CTP solution that can save a lot of cost

Finally, Mr. Lu Guangzhong from Luscher explained the use of the traditional PS version of the UV light source CTP equipment; Luscher is known for its innovative and flexible CTP system solution, and provides customers with the most appropriate CTP plate making system to meet customer needs.

Luscher's XPose CTP platemaking system is the only unique design of the inner and outer drums in the world, which enables the fixed plate and the light source to be exposed to short-distance high-speed exposure. It is also the only CTP system in the world with an open structure design. The same fuselage structure can extend several different types of CTP, including thermal, traditional PS and flexo. Different quantities and different types of laser light sources can be matched according to different needs of customers. Since most of the parts in the shared design can be used interchangeably, the technology and the mutual support of the parts are provided, and the common stability is self-evident.

XPose is the only traditional PS plate CTP plate making system using UV laser diodes in the world. The UV laser diode has a long life and is stable for a long time. During scanning, the machine will automatically adjust the output power of each diode to achieve the same. This machine adopts the same platform design as thermal one. The UV light source CTP uses the same plate and stencil solution as the traditional printing plate. The traditional printing suitability is well known, and the applicability has been recognized by the public; the usage accounts for the global plate. 60% of the sales volume, the price of the plate and the stencil solution are low, and there are many different types of plates and suppliers to choose from. The same printing equipment, no need to buy separately, just add the UV light source CTP to the original plate making process, simple workflow integration, easy to enter the CTP field, the same as the use of film workflow, printing The master has long been familiar with the characteristics of the plate, does not affect the operation mode of the original printing machine room, no adaptability problems, the printing machine room only uses one type of plate material, easy to operate.

Luscher's design guarantees the customer's future market cost changes or quality requirements. If necessary, the UV laser diode can be converted into a laser diode for the thermal source, using a thermal plate.

Is the traditional PS version of CTP technology not yet mature?

The question that participants were most concerned about during the Q&A session was: "Is it true that the traditional PS version of CTP technology is not yet mature and can only handle thicker outlets?" The answer is that this legend will be broken by Luscher's new technology. Because Luscher uses the same optical technology of the thermal CTP machine, it can achieve a resolution of 10 microns, the standard equipment is 2400dpi or 2540dpi, if it is specially made up to 4000~8000dpi.