In the Internet era, the market environment of the printing industry is changing rapidly, and companies are now turning to provide personalized and differentiated products and services to meet the growing personalized needs of consumers. This trend has directly contributed to the rapid development of the small batch customized printing industry and has brought new growth points for the entire printing industry. Small batch customized printing is showing great potential for application in many fields such as product packaging, advertising and publishing.
The rise of plate-less digital printing technology has gone a step further for small batch package printing. It breaks the physical limitations of traditional printing, such as plate and ink, and realizes the efficient transformation from design to finished product, which greatly improves the production efficiency and product quality. At the same time, intelligent, automated production processes also provide stronger support. So, in small batch customized printing, compared with traditional offset printing, what are the advantages of plateless digital printing technology?
Initially、Cost Saving
1、No plate-making costs
Traditional printing methods in the printing before the need to produce printing plates, which not only increases the cost, but also extends the production cycle. The plateless digital printing digital printing completely eliminates this step, realizing the direct output from the design to the printing, which greatly reduces the production cost. No plate fee, which is particularly important for small quantities of customized printing, can significantly reduce the fixed cost of each order, and the customer also more acceptable and willing to place an order to print.
2、Reduced inventory costs
The flexibility of plateless digital printing allows companies to produce instantly according to the demand of the order, avoiding the problem of inventory backlog caused by the limitations of the starting print run in the traditional printing method. This near-zero inventory production model helps companies to reduce inventory costs, in the capital turnover, cost management can be flexible.
3、Reduced labor costs
The simplification of production steps brings about a natural reduction in labor costs. For example, in the workshop of Lianyin Digital, dozen machines running, just only two people in the management. It is common for one person to manage seven or eight machines.
Secondly、Improved efficiency
1、Fast fulfillment of market needs
The immediacy of plateless digital printing allows companies to respond quickly to changes in the market and meet urgent customer needs. While traditional printing methods require long lead times, plateless printing can complete the entire process from design to printing in a short period of time, greatly improving productivity.
2、Streamlining the production process
Plateless digital printing eliminates tedious steps such as plate making and proofreading, simplifying the production process. This not only shortens the production cycle, but also reduces the possibility of man-made errors and improves product quality.
Third、Personalized customization
1、Flexible and versatile design
With the flexibility of plateless digital printing, designers can give full play to their creativity and achieve personalization. Customers can freely combine patterns, text and other elements according to their needs to meet diverse market demands. This personalized production method not only enhances the added value of the product, but also strengthens the customer experience.
2、One sheet of paper can be printed and taken away immediately
Plateless digital printing breaks the traditional printing method of the number of plate limitations, realizing the meaning of “One sheet of paper can be printed and taken away immediately. This flexible printing method makes small batch customized printing easier to achieve, and meet the needs of customers for fast, convenient, personalized.
Fourth、Widely meets the needs of various scenarios
1、Prepress proofing：Requirements for high fineness, then high-resolution, 8-color digital printout, the prints can also meet the requirements, then the print results can comparable to offset printing.
2、Multiple copies of a single work：Digital printing is more advantageous, multiple versions in the computer can print in any time
3、After printing then replenishing the order for production：Supplementary order production is no need to turn on the high-volume printing machines, the use of digital printing is more cost-effective.
4、small order or bulk order：The application of foreign trade e-commerce scenarios, the use of plateless printing is even better choice.
Fifthly、environmentally friendly and energy efficient
1、Environmentally Friendly Printing
Plateless digital printing usually uses water-based ink environmentally friendly materials, no pollution to the surrounding environment. Water-based pigment ink, dye ink is water as the main solvent, in terms of environmental protection than UV ink, solvent ink has more advantages, but also in line with the current environmental standards. At the same time, the waste ink produced in the printing process has a special recycling device, realizing the goal of green printing.
2、Energy saving and consumption reduction
Digital printing machines and equipment for small batch printing, the model is not very large, compared with the traditional printing machine, power consumption is lower, which is in line with today's society on environmental protection, energy saving requirements. At the same time with fast-drying ink, no need to open high-power dryer. In the media with excellent ink absorption performance, it can enhance the efficiency of production capacity.
It can be seen that these advantages of plate-free digital printing not only helps enterprises to reduce costs, improve efficiency, meet personalized needs, but also in line with the social development trend of environmental protection and energy saving. Looking ahead, the small batch custom printing industry will continue to maintain a strong momentum of development, technological innovation and market demand will be driven by the double injection of its constant vitality. The market is constantly changing, digital printing technology is also progressing, its application in the field of small batch customized printing prospects will be broader.
