Printing is indeed the most important medium for human culture and thought. However, the invention of a computer can be a milestone in another new culture and new idea of ​​modern humanity. This new media continues to open up human thinking through various human use methods. However, new thinking does improve human production, and the linked effects it brings are endless.
CTP (Computer to Plate) direct plate-making production team is the use of computers to improve the production process, but it is worth noting that the enhancement of human environmental awareness and scientific and technological progress has catalyzed. Although the advent of the CTP is like sand for a number of great inventions, but for the development of the entire printing industry, the CTP has brought about not only changes in the way of printing plate making, printing equipment and processes, but also many printing jobs. Those who bring about great uncertainties will face an unknown “printing worldâ€.
The improvement of the working environment The traditional plate production process is indeed a lot more complicated than the current CTP. The most obvious difference is the improvement of the production environment. The traditional plate-drawing fan sounds, thick syrup smell, and negative film cutting and scattering are no longer there. Changing the medicine, cleaning units, maintenance, and Other cumbersome work do not need to be done again. In other words, the potential advantages of CTP are generated under the comparison. Now we use our previous work experience to explore what changes CTP has brought us. First, make a comparison based on the difference in the workspace. The planning of space planning for the traditional plate-making factory needs to be adapted to local conditions. From the imposition of large-scale group pages via the RIP conversion output, we can analyze and list the necessary equipment one by one: the film-taking machine, film, punching machine, printing machine, and punching plate. Machine and so on. How to arrange the above comprehensive materials? The setup of each home is different. It is time for the industry to think about how to find so many machines and storage materials.
The process streamlines the space occupied by the traditional plate making process equipment by approximately three times the space required by the CTP, while also considering the physical and mental health of the staff. Such as punching machine, plate machine can not be placed in the middle of the workplace; the strong smell of chemicals and baked hot gas as much as possible to completely discharge. The CTP has no scruples. There are too many production processes in the traditional printing plate making process, and there are too many human factors. The biggest advantage of CTP lies in the elimination of overly complex production processes. For example: Once in the past, the traditional printing method was to take a finished piece and then take out a piece from the packaging sheet and put it on the printing machine. After the film was set in place, the second plate was produced. At most, a reverting-spinning-glass-stenciler is used to increase the platemaking speed, but at the very least it is necessary to wait for the exposure of the first plate after the completion of the exposure of the second plate, and the CTP can place ten plates at a time. Inside, the editions are sunk out one by one until all the plates stored in the machine are used up, without the need for repetitive movements. It's like listening to CDs once and then only putting them one at a time, but nowadays you can put more than one at a time.
Pollution-free moves into the traditional plate-making sources of pollution are: 1. Negatives; 2. Punch syrup; 3. Plate; 4. Plotting machine syrup. These so-called pre-public pollution problems are particularly prominent in the current trend of rising environmental awareness. The absence of film work, non-chemical reagent processes, and the reduction of public hazards have become one of the important concepts in the research and development of the printing industry. Now the ISO9002, ISO-14000 environmental protection standard system, but if there is a higher printing technology, perhaps the ISO system may not apply to the printing industry, which will be the greatest blessing for printers and environmentalists.
CTP raises the psychological level The most unknown potential function of CTP is to improve "people." That is not only reducing manpower but also improving people's work habits. The invention of CTP made many young people who did not want to be regarded as workers return to prepress work because the work and environment of all prepress departments was roughly the same as that of general computer company offices.
Responsibilities of CTP agents The perception of CTPs for manufacturers is expensive, but there are also many eye-catching and determined investors who resolutely take the lead in adopting the CTP system in order to grab the market. However, we analyze the most important reason why CTP is currently not popular. In addition to the price, personnel training and how to maintain long-term actions are the focus of manufacturers. If manufacturers have many uncertainties about future actions, they mostly adopt a wait-and-see attitude. From another perspective, if CTP system vendors first rationalize prices and expand sales, it will promote the upgrading of printing.
The CTP system, whether or not it can become the mainstream of the platemaking industry, but its obvious advantages are summarized as follows:
1. Save work space; 2. Change production methods; 3. Improve production efficiency; 4. Improve printing quality; 5. Simplify maintenance; 6. Reduce pollution; 7. Improve work levels, stimulate psychological self-esteem; 8. Obsolete obsolete skills 9. Increase business advantages. (Bean Wen) ("China Packaging News and Printing Weekly")