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Nowadays, the global packaging industry is undergoing obvious digital transformation. More and more traditional printing workshops begin to abandon old-fashioned printing modes and turn to efficient digital solutions. Among them, single pass digital printing has gradually become the mainstream choice for medium and large packaging production lines.
In Europe and America, short-run customized packaging orders keep growing steadily. Traditional flexographic printing can no longer meet flexible and fast delivery demands. Meanwhile, Southeast Asia, Middle East and other emerging markets are expanding packaging production capacity rapidly, which brings huge demand for cost-effective digital printing equipment.
Compared with past years, modern single pass printing technology has made great progress in ink adaptability, running stability and color reduction effect. It can match most mainstream packaging materials without complicated pre-press procedures, greatly simplifying the whole production flow.
First of all, it saves much preparation time. There is no need to make printing plates, so factories can respond to temporary orders faster.
In addition, it effectively cuts comprehensive production costs, including labor cost, plate making cost and material waste loss.
Furthermore, it supports personalized variable data printing, which perfectly fits food daily labels, commodity anti-counterfeiting codes and customized outer packaging demands.
In the next few years, single pass packaging printing will develop towards higher speed, higher intelligence and stronger integration.
Intelligent feeding, automatic error correction and remote after-sales diagnosis will become standard configurations of industrial printers.
Apart from basic printing functions, multi-functional integrated equipment that combines printing, laminating and special effect finishing will occupy more market share. Meanwhile, energy-saving and eco-friendly printing solutions will be more popular to meet global environmental protection standards.
For packaging factory owners and printing investors, grasping this industry trend in advance is helpful to optimize production lines and seize more market orders.
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A: European customized packaging market and Southeast Asian daily commodity packaging market show the strongest demand at present.
A: Intelligent operation, multi-function integration and green environmental protection are three core developing directions.
A: It will not replace it completely. They will coexist, serving large-batch fixed orders and flexible customized orders respectively.
A: It adapts to small batch and diversified orders, shortens delivery cycle and reduces long-term operating investment.
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