1. Pre-press turns to Pre-media
(1) The output center is changing to a multimedia service provider, and the design company hopes to expand to various aspects such as design and prepress.
In the past, most of the work performed by the output center was to sample the documents sent by the customers and output the film or the printing plate. However, some output centers now hope to expand their business, not only in the field of prepress, but also hope to expand to Front-end, such as helping customers with packaging design , layout of packaging documents, etc. In other words, some design companies have also expanded their business to the pre-press field, hoping to transform into a full-service multimedia service provider.
(2) The Pre-press department of traditional printing service providers began to want to directly contact the brand owners.
In the past, the supply chain from design to printing was created by the brand owner, and the creative design was carried out by a specialized company. The design was then transferred to the next company for the actual document design, and then transferred to the pre-press supplier for document adjustment to suit printing. Finally, printing is carried out. It can be seen that the design and prepress are done by different professional companies. We now see that some prepress departments of printing companies also want to expand their business, from passive acceptance of documents to pre-production of their own documents. Even involved in the design field.
2. Automation of tools and processes
Prepress is a sub-industry that has evolved with the rapid development of computers and networks. As China's labor costs increase, more and more companies are choosing automated tools and processes.
For the tool, for a simple example, for a medium-complexity package file with CMYK and 2 spot colors, it takes 20 to 30 minutes to fill the gap, but if you use a special tool, it can be completed in about 2 to 3 minutes. In this way, on the one hand, the work efficiency is greatly improved, on the other hand, the consistency of the pre-press results is ensured, and if done manually, the results produced by each person are not the same.
With the advent of CTP , automated processes have become widely used in commercial printing , and packaging printing is not much automated due to its own complexity. However, many companies have successively introduced automated packaging and printing processes to free operators from heavy prepress work.
3, QC tools
Prepress work is mainly for printing, but prepress work is very critical. Imagine if there is no trapping before printing, and how much material needs to be printed to adjust to the registration. If it is flexo printing, it is basically impossible. But before printing, unlike printing, a piece of printing directly produces revenue, and there is a saying in the industry that "no mistakes before printing is to make money", I am deeply impressed. Some large-scale enterprises have error rate indicators, and it is impossible to make no mistakes at all.
It is understood that the error indicators of general enterprises are expected to remain within 1%. Imagine a factory with an annual output value of 200 million yuan. The 1% error rate means that nearly 2 million yuan is wasted, so the QC tool is very important. The more time you spend on the pre-press inspection, the less likely you are to make a mistake. Now there are some tools for comparing PDF files before and after, which can help printing companies to detect errors in the file early.
4, MIS / ERP system and its integration with the process
Most large enterprises now have pre-press processes, and some of them also use production management systems such as MIS/ERP. Currently, only a few companies can effectively combine pre-press processes with production management systems, but this is One of the most important trends in the development of packaging in the future. In the future, customers can upload files on the Internet client, create work orders, and monitor the entire production schedule. Of course, it also includes monitoring of prepress production, such as whether the file is being trapped, or is it in the stage of outputting the version, or At the stage of plate making.
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