Prepare for the arrival of the CIP3 era

Packaging is a competitive industry, and any advances in preparation time and ink usage are welcome in the packaging industry. The recent development of CIP3 actively provided timely assistance to the needs of some packaging companies. Since the early growth of CIP3 mainly came from the experience of the packaging and printing department, if the concept behind it can be truly established, it will maximize the carton printing industry. For the benefit, CIP3 is the abbreviation for Computer Integrated Prepress, Press, Postpress for prepress, printing, and postpress. Originally proposed by Heidelberg, many well-known manufacturing companies in the printing industry currently participate in the development. Although it has been proposed for several years, it has been slow to start and develop. It has only recently made a new breakthrough in technology, making it a hot topic. The core concept of CIP3 is actually all the digital control of prepress production, printing by the central processor unit (CPU), the most advanced paper cutting methods, and the growing number of gutters, all of which are controlled and managed with data. For CIP3, people in the industry generally think it's easy to say. A committee composed of prestigious, printed, and post-pressed three well-known companies has worked hard for more than five years to find a solution with minimal success. In spite of this, a slight improvement made the CIP3 participants' morale more powerful and they were brave enough to make more attempts to prepare for the final success. The production of a carton requires the generation of large amounts of digital data. The designers on the Mac, the photographers of digital cameras, the process of making copies, and the large number of steps spent on images are just the beginning. The emergence of digital proofing and impositioning film used for printing provides a broad space for the development of CIP3. Some companies may have advanced CTP equipment, but often all the accumulated information is deleted after the plate is produced. Sometimes doing so will have irreparable consequences. In addition, a plotter is used to draw the die-cut guideline, and even if the information from the imposition program can be input directly into the laser die-cutting machine, if the computer language is appropriate, this method is still used by the laser die-cutting machine to create a cut. The shape of the carton. These data may also be lost. Although you can spend 30,000 to 60,000 pounds to buy a plate scanner, the plate scanning method is used to obtain data that controls the amount of ink needed in the printing process. However, the data obtained by this method has considerable distance from the first-hand information. Naturally, the operator must carefully adjust this information, which takes time and waste of paper and ink. With the CIP3 technology, the above problems can be solved. It can save all the information of the job in a CIP3 file and call it at any time. The CIP3 system also has the function of a plate scanner, which passes it first-hand information to the printer for controlling the amount of ink. According to earlier data, Sai Angel may have made more progress in eliminating the abnormal operation of printing. It seems to be the first company to use additional programs in the prepress environment. This can avoid the task of platemaking and printing stages. Separated. Its InkPRO program uses data from the RIP to set up print delivery from the internal network over the prepress network. KBA works closely with Saigera. Its print operating system, called Logotronic, is probably the most open of all mainstream printing systems. This system can be directly connected to the prepress network through the CIP3 interface on the Ethernet. In the connection that CIP3 is exploring, the control of ink data may be the easiest to achieve, but if you ignore this step you will get an error, because the first step is usually the most difficult, and it may quickly lead to other problems. One of the earliest companies using the InkPRO system was the Belgian Printer outside Antwerp. Antilope is a commercial printer that uses five KBA systems, mainly five-color printing presses, two Hydrablems, a five-color 72-band coating, and a SormZ. Marc Binnemans, director of management at Antilope, said that they have been working with Sai Angel and KBA for some time. After checking the steps and establishing the characteristics of each press, they have had a knowledge curve for at least 6 months. All problems have been left behind. They can save at least 5 minutes in each print preparation and save a considerable amount of paper and ink.