Business Card Printing, Packaging and Manufacturing Process Discussion III

　　 Third, business card printing equipment
The name card printing is a special printing industry. She has its own production equipment, special technical requirements, and special production environment. Business card printing is also due to its simple equipment, easy operation, low investment, rapid return, low starting point attracts a large number of people in the country to enter the industry, also caused a lot of demand for business card equipment. At present, there are many manufacturers of business card devices in China, and the brand and performance of similar products are also rich and colorful, which greatly promotes the development of the business card printing industry. If you are interested in the existing business card printing equipment, we will use the business card printing front, middle and rear printing methods as follows.

(a) prepress equipment

In the early stage of business card printing, the business card needs to be designed and typeset. Business card design and layout need to have computers, laser printers, scanners, printing machines and other equipment to complete.

1. Computers: Modern computers have been widely used in the business card printing industry. It can be said that without a computer, business card printing will not be completed. The computer is mainly used for business card design and layout, business card design for the square inch art, seemingly simple, but much more difficult than the average graphic design; text typesetting is also due to a small amount of text, limited range of changes, it is not easy to discharge bright layout . Fortunately, most of the business card users do not value a lot of time and money to design business cards. Business card design has low requirements for computers. All computers currently available on the market can be used for business card production.

2. Scanner: Business card production can not be separated from the scanner. Some of the logos, patterns, and photos of the business card should be entered into the computer using the scanner, and further modified, processed and then typeset.

3, laser printers: laser printers and computers are the indispensable equipment in business card production, laser printers can proofreading, can replace the simple business card should output the film, more directly to the design and arrangement of good business cards printed to a dedicated business card On paper, business cards are made directly. At present, domestic business card makers mainly use HP series black laser printers and QSM color laser printers.

4, Shaiban Ji: The production of offset printing business card must use Shaibanji. The main purpose of the plate-making machine is to print the film output from the computer and the pattern on the transfer paper to the PS printing plate for business card printing. To make a special business card, you must also use a printing machine to print the pattern on a screen printing plate for business card printing, and use it for a screen printing machine.

(b) Printing equipment

Business card printing uses different printing methods because of its different printing media. Computer business card paper must be printed using a laser printer; boxed business card paper must use a business card offset printing; special business card media must use screen printing machine printing.

1. Laser printers: Laser printers mainly print computer laser business cards in business card printing. Because of the different machines used in each business card printing store, black laser printing and true color laser printing can be divided. At present, the business card printing shop is mainly using black laser printing, and true color laser printing has become more and more popular.

2, business card offset press: is a traditional business card printing equipment, it uses a large offset printing principle, the use of PS version and accurate overprint, using printing ink, you can print a true color business card, printing is not as good as a color laser printer, and The operation is very complicated.

3, screen printing machine: can print all the plane and curved media, especially suitable for printing metal and plastic. Special business cards cannot be bent because of their large thickness, and they cannot be used in offset printing machines. They can only be printed using screen printing machines. Screen printers use screen printing plates and screen printing inks.

(III) Postpress Equipment

Some business cards must be reprocessed after printing. Some of the computer business cards need to be plastic sealed, and all computer business cards must be cut into business cards before they can be used. Some business cards need to be gilded to show nobleness and style.

1. Laminator: The thin computer business card paper must be thickened by plastic to be used normally. In the business card industry, a large number of 320-type business card special-purpose plastic laminating machines are used.

2. Paper Cutter: Cut the processed card paper so that the paper can be cut.

3, cut card knife: after plastic or plastic computer business card cutting, made of business cards.

4, hot stamping machine: to the need for gold foil business card bronzing.

Fourth, business card carrier

The business card carrier is the dependent body of the business card content, which is also called the business card medium. The current business cards, the vast majority of paper, some plastic cards are also paper core, but business cards are not only paper to print, people can also choose metal, hard plastic to print business cards, a new generation of electronic business cards is used Computer discs are used to make future business cards that can be read even by computer.

1. Computer digital business card paper: It is a special paper used by computer printing business cards. The feature of the computer business card paper is counting the number of sheets. Ten sheets of business cards can be printed on each sheet of paper, and ten cards of business cards are consumed on one box of cards. The computer business card paper can be white paper or colored paper that has been printed with color patterns. They are mainly printed with a laser printer into business cards.

2. Boxed business card paper: It is the special business card paper printed by the business card printing machine. The boxed business card paper is counted in the box. Each box contains 100 business card papers. The printing is lost due to the lack of one. One hundred. Combined business card paper is mainly used for business card offset printing, mainly white and colored paper, and rarely uses colorful business card paper.

3, special business card materials: metal, plastic and other non-paper materials constitute special business card paper. Because the special business card paper does not absorb ink on the surface and it cannot be as flexible as paper, neither the printer nor the offset printing can be used. Only the screen printing machine can be used for printing. Special business card prices are high, and personalized business cards are used more often. (to be continued)