Label Printing Plate-making Process

Nowadays label printing mainly adopts letterpress, offset printing, flexo printing and screen printing several ways, from a technical point of view, these come in different printing way, has its inherent advantages and disadvantages, no printing method can replace another way.
Offset printing is a way of printing, widely sheet-fed printing basic is offset printing, this way of printing with high speed, high printing resolution, overprint accurate, printing level full, but shallow, poor durability and ink layer is not suitable for printing bright color label product.
Letterpress copy good graphic definition, printing high speed, high color strength and durability than offset printing, silk screen printing is just slightly worse, but the level and accuracy are better than screen printing and flexo, therefore our country mostly adopts letterpress printing labels in the form of production.

The biggest advantages of silk screen printing is the ink layer is thick, good covering power, but the level of slow and reflect poor, set of low accuracy (this refers to the domestic general level), so the silk screen printing machine can be used to print the administrative levels which is not strong.
Flexible printing quality characteristics is centered, abroad more use this way to print labels, but the technology of anilox roll need high requirement of processing and the technical level of workers, while the machine is simple but the process is quite complex, in the domestic not more adopted labels printing this way.
If you want to printed out one of the most beautiful label, you need all kinds of craft in the printing process effectively together, will integrate the advantages of different printing way, form a greater advantage.

Purpose of combined with the multiple process
1. Effective anti-counterfeiting function: with a label on the product use a variety of printing process effect, especially in some easy to counterfeiting of cosmetics and food packaging label with this way of printing, can let the consumer glance through the label products of true and false, so as to safeguard the interests of product manufacturers and consumers, also won the excellent reputation for printing.
2. Improve the quality of printed matter: technology is the combination of the advantages of various printing process together, so this kind of combination printing mode to ensure maximum printing effect, so as to satisfy people's growing sensory requirements, at the same time improve the quality of printing in the label printing company, and thus more supply of goods for this. Improve production efficiency to reduce costs, combining various processes also contains printing and post-press processes, the combination of products in the production of printing and printing at one time, after the finished products directly, can greatly reduce the cost.