Choose Flat Cigar Paper Boxes CTP From A Cost Perspective

Choose Flat Cigar Paper Boxes CTP from a cost perspective

With the increasingly fierce market competition, printing companies are facing the challenges of how to improve the printing quality to undertake more high-quality business, how to shorten the printing cycle to meet the faster delivery cycle, and began to consider the application of CTP - digital direct plate making technology. Faced with a wide range of CTP system choices, most printing plants pay more attention to the benefits of the rapid large-scale application of CTP in the enterprise and the application cost of CTP.

The application cost of CTP is mainly reflected in the replacement cost of the laser, the flushing cost of the plate, the maintenance cost of the equipment, the efficiency cost, the cost of the process and so on. This article will discuss the choice of CTP with the printing house from the perspective of cost.

In 2004, Founder Company began to promote the Fuji Purple Laser CTP, Founder Smooth Flow -- Chinese PDF&JDF digital workflow, Founder color management service as the core of the Founder Changyi Purple laser CTP solution. In just over two years, the users of Fangzheng Changyi Purple laser CTP system have covered many application fields such as commercial fine printing, book/periodical printing, packaging printing, commercial short printing, security bill printing, plate making output center, and so on. Up to now, more than 100 sets of systems have been installed and applied in the country. In 2006, the annual growth rate exceeded 132%, making it the most popular CTP system in the annual CTP market. In the first half of 2007, 30 sets of new installations were used, the rapid market growth of Founder CTP system and the choice of more new printing quality users is precisely because of the huge cost difference between Founder Changyi purple laser CTP system and other CTP systems, and the huge advantage in application cost.

First, the replacement cost of the laser

It is not uncommon for users of thermal CTP to replace two lasers in three years, and the high cost of three or four hundred thousand laser replacements each time also discouraged printing companies that later chose CTP systems. The replacement of the laser occupies a very high cost in the use of the entire thermal CTP system. For the purple laser CTP system, the laser has a service life of 8 to 10 years, so that printing companies can calmly choose and apply CTP without worrying about the high cost of laser maintenance.

Second, the cost of plate material

The cost of plate material has always been a topic of concern for printing companies, and has been a major factor restricting the wide application of CTP in the past two years. With the production of FUJI, AGFA, KODAK International three plate manufacturers in China, the era of CTP users in China only relying on expensive imported plate has long become history, and domestic plate technology has gradually matured and begun to be applied, which has also brought good news for the application of CTP.

From the point of view of the cost of CTP plate washing, the thermal plate has to be replaced once every 300 square meters or 7 to 10 days, while the violet laser plate has to be replaced once every 3000 square meters or 3 months. Founder Violet laser CTP system flushing cost per square meter plate material is about 2 yuan, to wash 4000 folium plates every month, compared with other CTP systems, each month can bring hundreds of thousands of yuan for users to save the flushing cost.

3. Maintenance cost of equipment

The Fujifilm CTP system in the CTP system of Fangzang Changyi Laser was only launched in 2002, and the soft weakness of the thermal CTP structure was fully considered in the design, and its mature and stable internal drum processing technology comprehensively improved the stability of the equipment, reduced the later maintenance cost of the equipment and the potential loss of printing business caused by the CTP shutdown and maintenance.

Fourth, efficiency also needs to consider cost

On the face of it, it seems that efficiency has nothing to do with cost.

The Fujifilm CTP system is equipped with dual laser CTP equipment, which can output 40 folic plates under the requirement of 2400dpi commercial accuracy, or output 58 plates with 1200dpi book accuracy, equivalent to the production efficiency of 3 to 4 typical thermal CTP. Fangzheng Changyi Purple Laser CTP system can prepare a set of folio four-color commercial precision plate every 6 minutes, and can simultaneously respond to the production needs of a variety of printing presses, including high-speed rotary printing presses and various business models. And thermal CTP if you want to achieve such production efficiency requirements, either the CTP drum speed up or upgrade the equipment to the fastest equipment or add a new CTP system, for printing companies to achieve the same production efficiency is always at the cost of higher maintenance costs or higher system acquisition.

Fifth, Strong processes also cost

The process is a digital environment for the smooth use of CTP, and whether a set of processes is powerful, simple to use, and compatible with a variety of devices directly affects the success of the selection of CTP. Founder Changyi Purple laser CTP system is based on PDF&JDF powerful Chinese digital workflow Founder Smooth flow as the core, Founder smooth flow is fully compatible with book business, commercial business, packaging and printing business, 1> 3, a set of processes to deal with all businesses; Fangzheng Smooth flow is a full Chinese interface, easy to learn and use, ordinary operators can fully grasp, can give full play to the value of the process; Founder smooth flow can connect a variety of types of output equipment, flexible scheduling business, and comprehensive protection of plate making equipment investment.

"Affordable CTP, poor use of CTP, huge investment without quality improvement" - has been an embarrassing problem for early CTP users for years. Whether the CTP system is used well or not, whether the choice is good or not, in addition to having a certain relationship with the CTP equipment and the process itself, the implementation of the color process of CTP is also a great factor affecting the application effect of CTP. Assessing whether a CTP supplier is professional or not, and whether it has the ability to provide color process implementation is one of the important assessment criteria. Founder's e-color process implementation service will help printing enterprises to comprehensively sort out and rebuild the digital process control standards of printing enterprises, train enterprise operators, master scientific color process control methods, so that CTP equipment can be fully applied in a short time, and comprehensively improve the return on investment of the system.

In the fiercely competitive printing market environment, Chinese printing enterprises apply CTP technology as a powerful tool to improve quality, improve efficiency, enhance image and expand business. In addition to paying attention to quality and efficiency, users in the era of low profits should choose a set of lower cost CTP system, which is the first factor that printing companies should consider when investing in new technologies. With unparalleled application cost advantages, Fangzheng Changyi Purple laser CTP system will undoubtedly create more conditions for China's printing enterprises to win the competition!