A printing factory can only be called a printing factory if it has printing equipment, and the printing press is more important. The printing press has monochrome, two-color, four-color and eight color. According to the specifications, it can be divided into eight start-up, four start-up, half start-up and full start-up. Some simple printing can also be done by screen printing, which can be completed by only one silk screen, but the effect is not better than that of large machine printing.

Larger printing plants will also have some other printing equipment, such as: binding machine, carbon free copy bill printing machine, automatic die-cutting machine, high-speed box pasting machine, etc., adding film room, laser knife mold room, and bookbinding paste table workshop, etc. There are also small-scale printing, such as screen printing, only a screen can complete the printing, but the effect is not better than large machine printing.

Nature of Business

There are many things that printing factories can do, such as brochures, samples, books, newspapers, magazines, bills, cartons, paper bags, calendars, envelopes, paper rolls, book printing, poster printing, etc. in short, printed products can be seen everywhere in our country. That's why printing technology exchange, printing recruitment, printing publicity, printing exhibition activities, etc.

The technology of transferring ink to the surface of paper, fabric, leather and other materials through plate making, ink application, pressure and other processes to copy the contents of the original in batches. It's called printing. There are many forms of printing: traditional offset printing, screen printing, digital printing and so on.

Screen printing is mainly manual operation, mainly used for pet label printing. Generally speaking, the printing factories which mainly print electronic labels are generally equipped with web screen printing machines. In addition, web flat die-cutting machine, small slitter is also necessary equipment for such manufacturers.

In the national standard "terminology of printing technology", the definition of printing is: the process technology of using printing plate or other means to transfer the graphic information on the original to the substrate.

Printing classification

There are different types of printing business and different purposes. Such as book printing, News printing, advertising printing, etc.

The printing of books and magazines used to use relief printing.

News printing: in the past, we used to use relief rotary printing machine, because of its high speed and large amount of printing. In order to meet the needs of color printing, lithography or gravure rotary printing machine was used.

Advertising printing: including color pictures, pictorial, posters, etc., most of them are printed in lithography, and sometimes in relief, intaglio or perforated printing.

Stationery printing: for example, envelope, letter paper, invitation, business card, account book, operation book, etc., must be printed in low cost and large quantity, so the quality is inferior, so relief printing is preferred.