Binding & Finishing (below)

As the new century is processed on demand, new changes have been made to the binding equipment. Personalized direct mailing and variable printing account for an increasing proportion. All the elements, graphics and layouts are personalized. There is still a long way to go. However, some devices have already been personalized. Heidelberg's postpress equipment provides personalized inkjet output. Each printed sheet to be mailed is printed on a different address, or even a different pattern. Because each print is different, the binder has encountered new difficulties. How to solve the waste of different printed sheets? Manufacturers have tried many methods such as: Marking printed sheets, there is currently no effective solution. The current solution works well, but it is expensive. Heidelberg offers the equipment NexPress for personalized printing, a new type of printing machine that can print on a single sheet. Both Poler and Heidelberg's Stack Folding Machines provide solutions for personalized printing to process NexPress products. The on-demand printing market continues to expand. For a long time, printers have invested in high-tech printing presses and ignored the binding equipment. Their investment is impossible to compare. In any case, ignoring post-press processing can create waste, weaken competitiveness, and redirect your customers to other printers. Post-press processing will adapt to multi-function digital printing The DRUPA 2000 is an exhibition of various digital presses. In 1999, the two-color printing press produced 8.5×11 inch digital prints with 85 billion pieces, mainly news letters, software texts and ISBN (soft cover). How and where to bind these printed sheets together provides a great binding market. Print on Demand (POD) emphasizes flexibility, personalization, and short-run printing. Today, POD printers can usually complete the printing of products within 24 hours. E-base can meet the complex requirements and automation issues, and quality control is also very important. Today, the binding equipment for short black-and-white softcover books is already complicated. Many suppliers offer highly automated on-line or off-line solutions for bookbinding in small-batch paperbacks. This new device is equipped with a book sealer and a new generation of highly automated three-sided cutters. This binding device can be adjusted for different spine thicknesses and adapted to print on demand. Short-term mailings now have a large market. Many digital printing business program binders produce hardcover books. The complexity of binding equipment, the limitations of limited edition hardcover book decoration, and limited technology and experience have created opportunities for program binders. At the same time, because of the flexibility of short-run printing, many program stitchers have been printing short-run book blocks to meet customer needs. In this market publishers and agents have turned to hardcover books. This forces suppliers to improve their technology and use appropriate materials to achieve good economic benefits. In the next two or three years, it is important to print paperbacks on demand. On the level of future on-demand printing, industrial standards are very important. In the past three years, the printing industry has been working to establish pre-press, printing, and post-press communication standards. Although the CIP3 operation originated from prepress and ink equipment, it has begun to have a certain influence on the post-press brush. The multi-function digital printer emphasizes personalization. Today, two-color and multi-color printing require highly consistent information delivery throughout the production process. Sheet-fed integration technology is shifting to the publishing market. At present, several standards have been formed to ensure the accuracy of complex text page codes and the consistency of documents. Color In the past eight years, the printing industry accepted a two-color multifunction digital press. However, the success of two-color multifunction digital presses is not simply a replacement for two-color lithography presses. New features of the device include: short version, personalized (key). Reducing paper costs and improving print quality are the future direction of digital presses. Today, short-lived color work is calculated in a very small amount of -500 sheets. The minimum standard is determined by the cutting machine. Cutting 500 at a time is the most practical and economical. Although we cannot predict the future based on current details, we can see that many color digital printing opportunities reduce the number of short editions to 5 to 10 copies. When printing presses can be printed economically, the sheet-fed color post-printing technology will face challenges that can be cut, folded, and indented without the need for human manipulation. This technology is expected to be achieved in the next few years. Color and two-color color digital printers cannot print two-color products economically like two-color printers. Therefore, in the next three to five years, two types of printing opportunities will move toward consolidation. The equipment with a collating machine ensures the integrity of the printed sheets. The digital color press of the future will have a revolutionary breakthrough in quality, and at the same time it will increase investment in the on-demand book production market. Where to go? In electronic imaging black-and-white and color printing technology, speed, quality, and web flexibility will be enhanced. This will also affect post-press processing. The future of post-press processing equipment will be more powerful, reduce the technical requirements for workers, and enable high-speed, high-quality production. In the next three years, we expect that printing ISBNs on multifunction digital presses will reduce costs by up to 10%. In addition, more than 60,000 non-printers and publishers also use digital presses. At the same time, this technology provides a choice of business models that can be selected for either discrete or centralized production. Waiting for another two years, we can see that in the bookstore, the printing and binding of paperback books is the case. Hot Stamping and Embossing: Pioneers in Postpress Although in the past 10 years, hot stamping technology has greatly improved in speed, technology is not the only factor affecting today's hot stamping, embossing, and finishing. These four important areas are worth talking about. The first three are directly related. 1. The printer should do more than just print to stay competitive. 2. Accordingly, post-press processors no longer rely on the trade market for survival. 3. Diversification of post-press processing to accommodate more users. 4. Rotary bronzing machines open up new markets for printers and post-press processors. In the field of sheet-fed printers for printers and post-printers, a six-unit 40-inch perfect press with a hot stamping unit replaced the second and fourth unit presses. This has a direct impact on the post-press processors. Traditional post-press processors rely on printers. In the past, many post-press processors had never even had their own pillar customers. Instead, they were only bronzing, embossing, or other post-press processing operations for the printer's products. As printers purchase equipment with additional processes (which can be printed and processed), post-press processors must face customers directly. In the rapid development of today, more and more commercial post-press processing, the post-press printing and processing has become inevitable. As the post-press processors directly face the end-users, the post-press processing market has expanded considerably, and buyers can obtain satisfactory results from post-press processing. For the current commercial post-press processors, it is necessary to maintain the current users of the printers, but also to expand direct consumer groups, and go to the post-press processing. Many postpress processors have changed. The goal of printers and post-printers is the same - to expand their business - sometimes mixed and sometimes independent. However, the final result is the same - a larger post-press processing market. Diversification: A growing step printers strive to provide consumers with more efficient processes and equipment, as do postpress processors. Over the past few years, many post-press processors have added processes, UV coating, laminating, folding/gluing and even printing operations in post-press processing, which has enhanced the competitiveness of post-press processing. Rotary hot stamping Hot stamping and pressure embossing open up new markets. There are two main ways of rotating hot stamping: (1) Narrow web reel hot stamping. (2) Sheet-fed hot stamping. Narrow Web Rotary Bronzing Narrow Web Rotary Hot foil stamping units used in gravure printing machines. With the development and speed of bronzing technology. Gravure printing presses have been able to produce at low cost and high speed. The market for narrow-web roll bronzing is very broad. Especially for instant printing, such as trademark and cartoon printing. Large quantities of labels can be incorporated into decorative processes in narrow printing, such as bronzing and embossing, which require little additional cost. Hot stamping and embossing are no longer expensive for consumers who need to process high-volume prints. Narrow web reel bronzing opened up the market and attracted more attention. At the same time, it also poses a threat to sheetfed printing (such as trademark printing of wine), but the development of bronzing and embossing will facilitate the development of the printing market. Sheet-fed Rotation Foil Sheet-fed scrolling is the use of a curved die on the roller. Although it does not print and bronze online like the narrow web bronzing, it is still faster than standard pattern printing. This is good for mass production of cartoons, greeting cards, book cases and other similar items. The more mature and familiar the process is, the faster the business rises and the better the position of post-press processing. The post-press finishing process is different from the past, and it must have changed. With increasingly fierce competition and increasingly mature technologies, the expansion of the market is an inevitable result, but it is necessary to pay attention to gradual progress. Graphic and postpress processors are preparing to lead.