The Future of Postpress (2)

Fourth, on-demand processing in the new century, there are new changes to the binding equipment. Personalized direct mailing and variable printing account for an increasing proportion. All the elements, graphics and layouts are personalized. There is still a long way to go. However, some devices have already been personalized. Heidelberg's postpress equipment provides personalized inkjet output. Each printed sheet to be mailed is printed on a different address, or even a different pattern.
Because each print is different, the binder has encountered new difficulties. How to solve the waste of different printed sheets? Manufacturers have tried many methods such as: Marking on printed sheets. There is currently no effective solution. The current solution works well, but it is expensive.
Heidelberg offers the equipment NexPress for personalized printing, a new type of printing machine that can print on a single sheet. Both Poler and Heidelberg's Stack Folding Machines provide solutions for personalized printing to process NexPress products. The on-demand printing market continues to expand.
Fifth, post-press processing will adapt to multifunctional digital printing DEUPA2000 is an exhibition of various digital printing presses. In 1999, the two-color printing press produced 8.5×11 inch digital prints with 85 billion pieces, mainly news letters, software texts and ISBN (soft cover). How and where to bind these sheets together provides a great binding market.
Print on Demand (POD) emphasizes flexibility, personalization, and short-run printing. Today, POD printers can usually complete the printing of products within 24 hours. E-base can meet the complex requirements and automation issues, and quality control is also very important.
Today, the binding equipment for short black-and-white softcover books is already complicated. Many suppliers offer highly automated on-line or off-line solutions for bookbinding in small-batch paperbacks. This new device is equipped with a book sealer and a new generation of highly automated three-sided cutters. This binding device can be adjusted for different spine thicknesses and adapted to print on demand.
Short-term mailings now have a large market. Many digital printing business program binders produce hardcover books. The complexity of binding equipment, the limitations of limited edition hardcover book decoration, and limited technology and experience have created opportunities for program binders. At the same time, because of the flexibility of short-run printing, many program stitchers have been printing short-run book blocks to meet customer needs.
6. On the level of on-demand printing in the future, industry standards are very important.
In the past three years, the printing industry has been committed to establishing pre-press, printing, and post-press communication standards. Although CIP3 action originated from prepress and ink equipment, it has begun to have a certain impact on India. The multi-function digital printer emphasizes personalization. Today, two-color and multi-color printing require highly consistent information delivery throughout the production process. Sheet-fed integration technology is shifting to the publishing market. At present, several standards have been formed to ensure the accuracy of complex text page codes and the consistency of documents.
● Color In the past eight years, the printing industry accepted a two-color multifunction digital press. However, the success of two-color multifunction digital presses is not simply a replacement for two-color lithography presses. New features of the device include: short version, personalized (key). Reducing paper costs and improving print quality are the future direction of digital presses.
Today, short-lived color work is calculated in as small quantities as 500 sheets. The minimum standard is determined by the cutting machine. Cutting 500 at a time is the most practical and economical. Although we cannot predict the future based on current details, we can see that many color digital printing opportunities reduce the number of short editions to 5 to 10 copies. When printing presses can be printed economically, the sheet-fed color post-printing technology will face challenges that can be cut, folded, and indented without the need for human manipulation. This technology is expected to be achieved in the next few years.
● Color and two-color color digital printers cannot print two-color products economically like two-color printers. Therefore, in the next three to five years, two types of printing opportunities will move toward consolidation. The equipment with a collator ensures that the printed sheets are neat. The digital color press of the future will have a revolutionary breakthrough in quality, and at the same time it will increase investment in the on-demand book production market.
In electronic imaging black-and-white and color printing technology, speed, quality, and web flexibility will be enhanced. This will also affect post-press processing. The future of post-press processing equipment will be more powerful, reduce the technical requirements for workers, and enable high-speed, high-quality production. In the next three years, we expect that printing ISBNs on multifunction digital presses will reduce the cost by up to 10%. In addition, more than 60,000 non-printers and publishers also use digital presses. At the same time, this technology provides a choice of business models that can be selected for either discrete or centralized production. Waiting for another two years, we can see that in the bookstore, the printing and binding of paperback books is the case.
Post-press processing is different from the past, and it must have changed. The increasingly fierce competition and the increasingly mature technology are the inevitable result of market expansion, but we must pay attention to gradual and orderly progress.