Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

1. Single gravure printing is developing towards offset printing and combination printing

      Offset printing has always occupied an absolute dominant position in the field of publishing and commercial printing. In particular, high-grade prints such as picture books can only be completed by offset printing. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      This is because with the development of offset press today, the technology has been very mature and has incomparable advantages in image detail reproduction compared with other printing methods. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       Compared with gravure printing, offset plate making has the remarkable characteristics of short cycle and low cost. At present, when cigarette factories frequently change cigarette bag design, Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

        constantly launch new products, and the sales volume of new products is small, offset printing machine shows high flexibility, which is the main reason why offset printing accounts for an increasing proportion in cigarette bag printing in recent years.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       Especially in China’s printing field, offset printing has been very popular and accounts for the largest proportion in various printing methods. It is the main printing method in the field of publishing and packaging printing in China. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      Therefore, in China, the installed capacity of offset printing machine is the largest and has the best hardware environment and software conditions. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       Heidelberg, Manroland, gaobao, Komori, Mitsubishi and Akiyama, the six major international suppliers of offset presses, have increased their sales in China in recent years. Most of the introduced sheet fed offset presses are used for packaging and printing. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       Although many large and medium-sized cigarette package printing enterprises have purchased web gravure printing machines or flexographic printing machines, they all take offset printing as one of their main businesses, Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       or for printing small and medium-sized cigarette package products, or for printing packaging products in other industries (such as cigarette boxes, cosmetic boxes, medicine boxes, etc.).Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       However, in recent years, with the intensification of competition in the tobacco industry and the continuous improvement of cigarette box design, a single offset printing has been unable to meet the requirements of exquisite cigarette packs.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

        Therefore, the technology of combined printing cigarette packs such as offset printing, gravure printing, screen printing and flexographic printing quietly rose and became popular in the north and south of the river overnight.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

          The result of combined printing pushed the grade of cigarette packs to an unprecedented level. At the same time, it also gave full play to the characteristics of several printing methods, learning from each other’s strengths to make up for their weaknesses. Offset printing is used to print screen images and gradient patterns.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

         Taking advantage of the thick ink layer and stable ink color of gravure printing, large-area field and spot color, gold silver, pearlescent color and various imitation metal etching inks are printed. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      If you need special finishing effect, you can also use screen printing technology, such as frosting, ice flower, crystal, wrinkles, etc. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      Therefore, the combination of offset printing, gravure printing and silk screen printing has brought unprecedented strong artistic visual effect to the cigarette box. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China 

      In addition, the post-processing technology: Gold sweeping, UV local polishing, bronzing, bulging, etc. make the cigarette bag even more beautiful and amazing.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

2. The materials used are becoming more and more high-grade   Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       As the four or five types of cigarette factories are unprofitable, how to push the first and second types of cigarettes to the market, break into brands and open sales has been a dream of all cigarette factories in recent years. As the soft package “Zhonghua” is the number one representative of high-grade cigarettes in China, its elegant packaging design of typical Chinese cigarettes has become the object of imitation by cigarette factories. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

        As a result, most cigarette factories adopt soft packaging design when launching their own top-grade cigarettes, and the materials used are almost all laser holographic aluminum foil paper, The price of this kind of paper is undoubtedly the highest of all paper. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      For example, blue soft bag Furong king, treasure Nanjing, treasure Baisha, treasure jiaozi, sunshine jiaozi, blue soft bag Baxi, century boutique Furong king, hard box packaging Furong king, Honghe V8, Guiyan, special alcohol gold medal Yunyan, etc. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

        all use plain laser aluminum foil paper. The outer packaging is so exquisite, and the interior is not backward. Many tipping papers used in these cigarettes are bronzed. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       All these make the cost of packaging and printing increase unprecedentedly. Of course, the price of these cigarettes is also very high, ranging from 20-80 / box, or even higher.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

3. There are more and more patterns of cigarette box post-processing technology   Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      In addition to the printing process becoming more and more complex and the materials becoming more and more exquisite, the post-processing process is also unwilling to be lonely, with more and more patterns and more complex operations.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

①。 Sweep gold

       A  process between bronzing and gold printing. It is characterized by high speed and low cost. It can obtain ideal results regardless of the size and size of the picture and text. Gold powder also has a variety of colors, such as gold, silver, red gold, red copper, green, brown, lemon, malachite blue, etc. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       it also has different granularity and shows different visual effects. In foreign countries, a kind of gold powder imitating diamond effect is still popular. This gold powder has four particle sizes and 10 colors,Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       which can make the whole picture and text show a group of diamond patterns under the irradiation of light, reflecting the unique effect of colorful light. Representative cigarette pack: Red ‘Huangshan -.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

②。 Holographic hot stamping

       Laser hologram is made by spatial frequency coding according to the principle of laser interference. Laser holograms have been used in the field of anti-counterfeiting since the 1980s because of their color, obvious layers, vivid images, changeable optical transformation effects and high information and technology content.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      The latest OVD technology has been significantly different from the widely used hologram holograms, and some holograms have the function of machine recognition. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      The mechanism of holographic hot stamping is to heat and melt the hot melt adhesive layer and separation layer on the holographic hot stamping material through the heated hot stamping die on the hot stamping equipment. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

        Under a certain pressure, the holographic grating stripe of the information layer of the hot stamping material is separated from the pet substrate, so that the aluminum foil information layer and the hot stamping surface are bonded and integrated to achieve a perfect combination.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      There are three types of holographic hot stamping: A. random hot stamping of ordinary holograms; B. Special edition hologram random ironing; C. Special version hologram positioning iron. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      The third kind of special hologram positioning ironing has frequently appeared on high-grade cigarette packs in recent two years.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

        It refers to the accurate hot stamping of the hologram of a specific part on the holographic anti-counterfeiting hot stamping anodized aluminum to the specific position of the cigarette bag through photoelectric recognition on the hot stamping equipment. Hologram positioning ironing technology is very difficult.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

        It not only requires the printing factory to be equipped with high-performance and high-precision special positioning ironing equipment, but also requires high-quality special positioning ironing anodized aluminum. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      The production process should also be strictly controlled in order to produce qualified cigarette package products. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       Because the positioning hot stamping logo has high anti-counterfeiting performance, it is used in banknotes, important certificates and other occasions. Representative cigarette case: the best “Yunyan” and “Furong king”.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

③。 Soft paper embossing and positioning ironing

         Due to the popular soft packaging form of high-grade cigarettes, the gorgeous post-processing technology originally mature on white cardboard has also been transferred to soft paper. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      Yunnan Qiaotong packaging and Printing Co., Ltd. first tried in this regard and achieved great success. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       This process completes bronzing and embossing in one process. The product has the characteristics of full bronzing, fine graphics and text, beautiful appearance and no embossing skew.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

        However, this process is technically difficult, and the requirements for the accuracy of hot stamping plate, holographic film and hot stamping machine are particularly high, and all operation indexes must be very strict. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       Because of this, it is difficult to be imitated and has a high degree of anti-counterfeiting, representing cigarette packs: “Fu” and Huize “Little Panda”.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China   Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

④。 Ironing before printing process

      In order to highlight the specific patterns and signs on cigarette packs, in recent years, some printing plants have launched a new process of hot stamping anodized aluminum first, and then printing patterns on anodized aluminum. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      The effect makes the theme of cigarette packs more vivid and lively. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       The key to this process is that the hot stamping of anodized must be firm. During printing, anodized must not be pulled down by printing ink. This will not only affect the quality of cigarette packs, Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

      but also the back pulled electrochemical aluminum will soon accumulate on the blanket, which may cause the loss of image dots at least, or the failure of local image printing. Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

        With the operation of the machine, the electrochemical aluminum powder will be transmitted to the ink roller system to accelerate the wear of the ink roller.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China

       Therefore, according to the characteristics of printing paper, this process should select appropriate anodized aluminum to ensure that anodized aluminum can be firmly attached to the paper surface. Representative cigarette packs: soft pack “national guest”, soft pack blue “Baxi”, blue “Shilin”.Characteristics Of Cigarette Pack Printing Technology In China