Several issues that the printing industry should pay attention to

In the past 20 years, China's printing industry has undergone earth-shaking changes, highlighting the renewal of equipment and the renewal of production processes. For example, from the photographic color separation process to the electronic color separation process, desktop publishing (abbreviated as DTP). Information processing from analog -> digital. The process of copying an image from a film -> no film, from a plate -> no plate. These changes have brought high-quality products, high production efficiency, and high economic returns to many printing companies. However, many companies do not like this, for many reasons. As far as the individual sees and hears, the following issues should be taken seriously. 1. Positioning is inaccurate and the equipment is not equipped.
In the era of photographic color separation and electronic color separation machines, the equipment used does not need to be user-selected. Simply press the operation manual to operate. In the era of DTP, input devices, output devices, and computers can be freely selected, and software can be freely selected. For example, there are many kinds of input devices--scanners, such as home type, office type, and professional type. Prices range from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands. Another example is the output device - the image recorder has different record sizes and recording resolutions, and prices vary considerably. Many companies know little about equipment performance parameters due to lack of consultation. In the purchase of equipment because of the positioning is not allowed to appear overstocked like a chicken knife. There are also small talents, like using a knife to kill cattle. For example, some companies scan objects are mostly natural color positive films, the density values ​​are mostly 3.0-3.5, and the scanners purchased are indeed CCD lithography scanners with the highest density of 2.40 or less, which must result in dark tone levels and information volume. loss. Another example is a company that scans objects with 95% color photos. It only needs to use a CCD lithography scanner with a density value below 2.40, but it buys several hundred thousand dollars worth of roller scanners (photomultipliers). This is killing. Chicken with a knives, overkill. There are so many examples. The result is economic losses and quality problems.
In addition, the equipment is not matched. For different products requiring different precision equipment, input devices, output devices, computers, and printing machines all have different accuracy, speed, and size. If they don't match or don't coordinate, they will cause waste and loss. 2, willing to spend huge amounts of money to sell equipment, are not willing to spend money for intellectual investment.
There are many contents of intellectual investment. Here we mainly talk about the training of operators and the improvement of their skills. Many factory printing and platemaking equipment are first class. However, the quality of products is not first-class. There are many reasons, but the quality and level of operators are decisive factors. For example, some computer-controlled plate-making and printing equipment, and the operator is on the job without training, coupled with poor artistic foundation, poor foreign language foundation, poor foundation of computer hardware and software, poor basic knowledge and operation skills of platemaking and printing processes. That is to say, the comprehensive quality is poor, so that the first-class equipment cannot make first-class product quality, and the result is necessarily poor quality, many waste products, low efficiency, and high costs.
The above only draws attention to the more prominent problems that individuals have seen and heard, and draws warnings from them.