The narrow-area label printing industry in Asia Pacific is dominated by letterpress printing technology. The letterpress printing and offset printing technology have many similarities in operating methods, such as: the amount of ink is adjusted by adjusting the screw. Modern letterpress printers, like offset presses, also control processes through computers. In this area, letterpress printing is not a big problem, and most of the letterpress printers can use flat press die cutting. Flat die-cutting die cutting is also a kind of die-cutting technology with a high penetration rate in China.
Originally, staff working on sheetfed offset technology can also use existing skills to directly engage in narrow web offset printing, continue to use the same media, the same prepress technology, and even the same automatic ink presetting device. . This alone is not enough, they must have to master some new technologies, especially the need to master how to deal with UV-curable inks, how to maintain the registration on the rotating equipment, of course, many automated tools can complete these settings.
Gravure printing also has a lot in the field of narrow label printing. Some gravure and flexographic printing presses have been equipped with gravure units that can be directly printed with metallic inks or adhesives.
Similarly, staff familiar with screen printing can quickly move further into narrow web printing. They can continue to use multi-color narrow screen printers, as well as on letterpress, flexo, or offset. A UV screen printing unit was added to the web transfer printing press.
If you are going directly from flexo, silk, offset or gravure to flexo, the staff must learn new skills. Never change their nature, the essence of printing is the same. From the experience of Europe and North America, flexographic printing technology is easy to grasp as long as high-quality plates, inks, and circular die-cutting tools can be purchased.