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2. Digital Variable Image System

The unprinted digital printing system is also called a variable data printing system. Only a non-printable variable data printing system is an all-digital printing system capable of different content from computer to paper, making it an ideal on-demand printing device.

The main technology of the variable data printing system is to use electrostatic printing or ink jet printing principle printing, its representative manufacturers have Xeikon, Indigo, Xerox, Nexpress and Aprion, Creo-Scitex, Barco and so on.

The digital printing system of electrostatic printing principle controls the distribution of the electrostatic charge on the surface of the photoconductor through the digital technology. It controls the distribution of the electrostatic charge on the surface of the photoconductor. The charged image then attracts the toner and transfers it to the substrate. After the toner has been shaped, it forms an image. . The color medium mainly uses toner and electronic ink.

The digital printing system of inkjet printing principle is to make the liquid ink pass under pressure through a row of small inkjet nozzles, use digital signals to control the dripping time (jet on inkjet printer) or use high-frequency action to cut the jet of jet ink (continuous inkjet) ) into a continuous ink droplets, using the same polarity charge deflector, guide the ink droplets to form images on the substrate. The color medium uses liquid ink.

These two different on-demand printing systems can be printed on a single sheet or web. The maximum sheet-fed print size is up to 1600×2600 mm with a resolution of up to 800 dpi, typically 300 to 600 dpi. The printing speed can reach up to 2200 pages/minute (A4 format), but the general monochrome printing is 600 to 800 pages/minute and the color printing is 60 to 200 pages/minute.

From this it can be seen that the digital printing system without a plate is, in principle, the digital printing device that best meets the on-demand printing requirements. However, as far as the current development status is concerned, the printing quality and printing speed cannot be compared with the traditional printing method or DI digital printing system. Counterbalance. Therefore, how to further improve its performance to meet customer requirements or find a suitable market position as soon as possible is a matter of common concern.

Fourth, on-demand printing market

Printing on demand is just one of the printing solutions. Broadly speaking, there is a market for printing demand, and printing on demand can survive, develop, and expand. In fact, from the perspective of the future development of the existing and forecasted on-demand printing market, the on-demand printing market can be positioned in the following areas:

1. Personalized printing market

Because on-demand printing can meet people's individual requirements, it can provide various choices such as printing materials, printing formats, and quantity of content. It can design and change printed content, printing layouts, and even open printing according to personal preferences and needs. Changes can also be made in the previous minute, so we can best meet customer needs.

At the same time, printing on demand can increase the added value of prints. Customers can print for their personalized work and will pay an additional fee. With personalized print, it will inevitably bring high added value. In addition, in the printing of commercial objects, invitation letters, greeting cards, mail order forms, bank credit cards, anti-counterfeit ID cards, personal albums, and other specific objects, personalized printing also has broad room for profit.

2. Print on demand market

On-demand printing is an expansion of the on-demand printing market. It caters to people's traditional reading habits and provides special services for tourists, merchants, public servants and athletes who are in a foreign land to provide familiarity with newspapers. With the increasing global economic integration and the increasing number of cross-border contacts, on-demand printing has become a market highlight.

On-demand printing is done through a newspaper reporting point similar to an automatic kiosk, where readers independently choose the language they are familiar with, the country they love, and newspapers that are interested in the content, and pay for themselves through simple operations. Finished print on demand.

The realization of on-demand printing must first be carried out by the service center to sort and select daily newspapers distributed all over the world, and the documents containing the images and texts should be transmitted in PDF format to satellite newsstands all over the world and updated daily.

3. On-demand printing and on-demand printing processing market

The On-Demand Printing and On-Demand Printing Processing Market is an integrated solution for books on-demand printing. It is very different from the traditional method of printing books. It can change the book printing process and print one by one from the first page of the book until the end of the last page, immediately after the cover printing, book binding, and decoration, so that it can be done in one go. The integration of a book is completed.

With the increasingly fierce competition in the book publishing market, the increase in the cost of books and the financial losses caused by the large inventory of books have become more and more important. Looking for a reasonable way of printing books in small quantities, striving to achieve the goal of “zero inventory”, and achieving optimality in terms of publishing timeliness, publishing costs, and printing flexibility, is a bright future for the publishing industry. On-demand printing and on-demand post-press processing are fully capable of meeting this market requirement.

Through the electronic document front-end processing system, with high-speed black and white printing equipment, the use of web printing and non-stop printing features, combined post-press processing equipment (including folding stacking, wireless perfect binding, automatic color insert cover, three-sided cut, color cover cover Membrane device) enables on-demand printing equipment to be printed and printed online to not only meet the on-demand printing requirements of short-length books, but also to display the reprints of the out-of-print books, collections, tenders, and sample book preprints. skill.

4. Unpredictable on-demand printing market

From the current situation of on-demand printing, it can be seen that the digital printing as a condition of on-demand printing supports a variety of technological developments. The digital printing systems produced by different manufacturers have different key technologies, printing quality, and printing costs. The print market that can be satisfied is not always the same. With the continuous development of the digital printing field, the on-demand printing market will surely be further expanded, because on-demand printing is not just a piece of the traditional printing market, but the development and maturation of on-demand printing technology has opened up new opportunities for it. The new markets, such as personal collections, document anti-counterfeiting, and a series of new application areas, are the highlights of new markets that continue to be discovered with the advancement of on-demand printing technology. Therefore, the on-demand printing market has an extremely large and unpredictable market with promising prospects. (to be continued)