Business card printing production equipment and supplies selection

The name card printing is a special printing industry, with its own special production equipment, special technical requirements, and a special production environment. The business card printing has also attracted a large number of people from the country to enter the industry because of its simple equipment, convenient operation, low investment, rapid return, and low starting point, which also caused a large 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.

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. Scanners: Business card makers can not be separated from the scanner. Some of the logos, patterns, and photographs of the business card must be entered into the computer using the scanner, and further modified, processed and then typeset.

3, laser printers: laser printers and computers, is an indispensable device for 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 the dedicated Business cards are made directly from business cards. At present, domestic business card makers mainly use HP series black laser printers and QSM color laser printers.

4, Shai Banji: The production of offset printing business cards must use Shai Banji. 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.

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. Now, as the price of true color laser printers (note that it is not an "ink jet" machine) has fallen, it has become more and more a trend.

2, business card offset press: It is one of the traditional business card printing equipment, it uses a large offset printing principle, the use of PS version and precise overprint, the use of 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. 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 business card paper so that the paper can be cut.
3, 切卡刀: After the plastic or plastic plastic computer card cutting, made of business cards. 4, hot stamping machine: The need for gold foil business card bronzing.

Consumables selection

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 for computer-printed 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 by the box. Each box contains 100 business card papers. The printing is lost because of the loss. 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.

Printing supplies
The use of different equipment for printing business cards will use different printing consumables, cartridges for printers, inks for offset printing and screen printing machines. Offset and silk screen printers have to be printed before the printing version, offset printing machine to the sun into a PS version, silk screen printing machine to print into a silk screen version can be printed.

1. Toner Cartridge and Carbon Powder: The cartridge is the main part of the printer, and the toner is the printing toner contained in the cartridge. Together they constitute the printer consumables. Cartridges print dry, toner-spray, smooth paper is not easy to stick, the most suitable for plastic cards, rough paper is also a good choice.

2. Ink: Offset printing machines and screen printing machines use printing inks. Offset printing inks are suitable for printing on paper with strong ink absorption. Screen printing inks are suitable for metal and plastic surfaces that do not absorb ink.

3, printing film: high-grade offset printing business card is the most important transfer tool. All color pictures, as long as there is a sense of hierarchy, need to be made into a film, and then use the printing machine to print the contents of the film to the PS plate printing version.

4, sulfuric acid paper: also known as tracing paper, printing transfer paper. Because it is primarily used for tracing, it can also be used as a substitute for film for print transfer. Sulfuric acid paper is a semi-transparent name and can be printed in the same way as printed film. The difference between sulfuric acid paper printing and printed film is that it can only be used for simple text and solid, line pattern printing. Before printing, first use a black laser printer to print the content on sulfuric acid paper, and then use a printing machine to print the sulfuric acid content onto the PS plate.

5, blackening agent: If you use sulfuric acid paper printing plate, when you find the laser printer printing color is not too dark, drying PS color is not clear, replace the new toner cartridge is not timely, you can use the transfer paper increase Black agent temporarily save emergency.

As long as you use a small amount of blackening agent on the sliver to gently wipe the text and pattern on the paper, the color of the text and pattern will immediately become darker and darker. 6, PS version: aluminum plate coated with photosensitive materials, specifically for offset printing. Business Card Offset PS Edition is the smallest of all PS versions. The PS plate is photosensitized with a film or transfer paper after a printing machine, and then undergoes development and fixing with a syrup, and is rinsed with water to form a PS plate for printing.

7, screen version: that is, special screen-printing stretch net, dedicated to silk screen. After the screen is exposed to the printing plate and the film or transfer paper, it is developed and fixed by the potion, and is rinsed with water to form a screen plate for printing.

8, printing kits: can be divided into two kinds of offset printing and silk screen, mainly on the good PS version of the sun and the screen version of the development and fixing process, making it suitable for printing on the machine.

9, revised paste, Jie Ban paste: on the sun in the PS version of the excess and unclean place to be processed to make it the best print quality.

Post processing consumables
1, plastic film: computer plastic business card paper used protective film. The role of plastic film is to increase the hardness of computer cards, protect the laser printing text is not easy to fall off, the market has a special business card film.
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