Pragmatic choice of Tipping Paper For Cigarette CTcP

Pragmatic choice of Tipping Paper For Cigarette CTcP

 

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Company name: Beijing Caiyunlong Printing Co., LTD

 

Company business: book covers, color inserts and some business brochures

 

Equipment: Purchased Bessin CTcP equipment in March 2008

 

"The competition is so fierce now that using CTcP actually saves us $2-10 per color compared to the same group of competitors using CTP."

 

Founded at the end of 2002, Beijing Caiyunlong Printing Co., Ltd. is located in the east corner of Beijing, due to the purchase of a Bessin CTcP equipment in March 2008, becoming the first printing enterprise in the north to use CTcP, once making it the focus of Beijing printing industry.

 

Why CTcP

Beijing Color Cloud Long Printing Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as color Cloud Long), which has been in the printing market in Beijing for more than 5 years, is also a little famous in the industry, this time they bought a Bessin CTcP to make them more "well-known", a Bessin CTcP equipment compared with the CTP equipment of the same magnitude is about 15% more expensive. And in the traditional PS version of exposure, how to see how it is like spending a lot of money to buy a chicken rib sooner or later to be eliminated, many friends in the industry are waiting to see the company's deputy general manager Qiu Hailong joke, "this move, color cloud dragon is wrong!" The friend said with concern. But when the author said these concerns, Qiu Hailong smiled and said: "Good or not only I know."

 

Most of the employees of Caiyunlong are from Shenzhen, a few years ago, watching their peers in Guangdong have mounted CTP, Qiu Hailong also moved the heart, but considering that these companies mounted CTP entirely because the business is mostly single, customer requirements force them to use CTP, and located in the north, the main business from the domestic Caiyunlong is not too high demand, So he did not immediately enter the CTP.

 

Flash a few years, with the continuous increase of business, Caiyunlong's requirements for production efficiency continue to improve, in the pre-press part to improve production efficiency has become an urgent problem to be solved, the CTP should be considered!

 

Five selection criteria

When considering the purchase of CTP equipment, Qiu Hailong is not like many printing companies, what people buy, I follow what to buy, "What is the purpose of buying CTP system? When you figure out your needs, and then according to these needs to correspond to the search, procurement will not deviate. In my opinion, the purchase of CTP system is mainly to meet my five needs: plate quality improvement, production efficiency improvement, cost reduction, quality stability assurance, and strong operability." For the procurement of CTP, Qiu Hailong has its own unique set of standards and theories.

 

1. Plate making quality

For the main business is book cover, color insert and some commercial brochure printing of color cloud dragon, in the past using the traditional way of film plate making, less than 5% of the outlets are uncontrollable, but the quality can meet customer needs, now using CTP system, you can control this value at 1% ~ 2%, which makes the quality of plate making and printing improved a lot. But how does CTP compare to CTcP? To this end, Qiu Hailong specialized in September 2006 with the same printing documents, printing conditions respectively with an international well-known brand CTP system, plate material and the use of ordinary Fuji star PS plate, Bse printing CTcP printed two sets of printing parts, the facts prove that in the quality range recognized by customers, the quality of the two is no difference.

 

"But don't forget that CTcP uses PS plates that have been in mass production for many years, which are stronger than CTP plates in terms of technical maturity and printability than CTP plates that are still in the process of technological evolution."

2. Production efficiency

"The productivity gains are self-evident for all CTP systems." In addition to saving the necessary production, platemaking, printing and other links in the traditional plate making process, Qiu Hailong believes that the CTP system's contribution to production efficiency comes more from the improvement of the production efficiency of the printing press, because the information loss in the plate making process is small, and the network is basically faithful to copy, so the past overprinting, repair and sample tracking links are eliminated, and these fragments of time seem small. But the savings have greatly increased productivity.

 

On the other hand, the amount of added paper is also reduced than in the past, saving time to save two reams of added paper per day, and the cost savings are quite amazing.

 

3. Cost accounting

Is traditional plate making saving money or CTP plate making saving money? In the end is CTP save money or CTcP save money, Qiu Hailong believes that there can be a good account to calculate.

 

First of all, CTP saves the cost of film, according to the current market price of 8 yuan/folio film price, a set of basic costs of about 160 yuan. Obviously, CTP is more cost-effective.

 

Secondly, CTP and CTcP, both of which are computer direct plate-making, are more economical?

CTcP uses an ordinary PS version, the price is 30 ~ 36 yuan/square meter, but after decades of scale development, the quality of PS version has been quite mature, and the profit margin is quite transparent, in comparison, the CTP plate used by CTP is still continuing to carry out technological innovation, the price is 60 ~ 70 yuan/square meter, Regardless of whether the plate manufacturing technology has room for improvement, the use of photosensitive technology or thermal technology requires a headache for the printing house.

 

At the same time, also pay attention to the cost from the supporting development potion, PS version of the development potion is a gift from the manufacturer, completely free. The development potion of CTP plate not only needs to be purchased separately, the price is about 4 yuan /m3, and it can wash about 3000 plates, and the supporting development potion of different brands of CTP plate is not universal.

 

In addition, it is also necessary to consider that due to the purchase of CTP plate materials and special developing potions, the warehouse and plate room should be transformed accordingly, which will also produce expensive costs.

 

Qiu Hailong also specifically clarified some misunderstandings about CTcP, such as although the use of recycled PS versions will lead to a decline in quality and publishing speed, but overall, CTcP is not "picky" about PS versions. At present, the PS version mainly used by the color Cloud dragon includes Starlight brand, Starlight Yang brand, and Golden Horse brand, which belong to the economical PS version with high cost performance. And CTcP does not use the CTP laser head, but a cheap, durable lamp, the maximum cost of a year is about 60,000 yuan, and the CTP laser head annual consumption of 100,000 yuan/year is quite cost-effective.

 

4. Stability and operability

Qiu Hailong is quite satisfied with the stability of this CTcP, but considering that it has been officially used since March 15 this year, the short time of use is not convincing, so Qiu Hailong is very careful not to draw conclusions about it. But he believes that the stability of the equipment is also largely determined by the use of the operator, and this is directly determined by whether the CTP can be well "integrated" into traditional printing.

 

Many CTP systems for competition protection reasons, set up layers of barriers in the compatibility of the printing process, which often makes ordinary printing companies introduce the CTP system, in order to match the process of the entire prepress department for earthmoving transformation, but CTcP is a more open platform, to color cloud Dragon as an example, They still use the new printing process and Founder Century RIP used before the purchase of CTcP, and the connection is very natural in terms of large plate and color management, and the CTcP operator is also completed by the original phototypesetting staff after simple training.

 

"For small and medium-sized printing companies, we must account clearly when investing in CTP, pay attention to any hidden costs that may occur, if you do not think clearly, it may lead to the entire investment in failure." Near the end of the interview, Qiu Hailong smiled and said: "To be honest, I am reluctant to introduce the benefits of CTcP to my peers, now the competition is so fierce, using CTcP to compete with a group of competitors using CTP, in fact, we have to save 2 to 10 yuan per color than them, such a secret weapon the less people know the better, haha." Although Qiu Hailong is joking, but if you seriously calculate the account, maybe you will have a more savvy investment.