How to control flexographic printing costs

In the past more than 30 years, the development of the flexographic printing industry in China has also experienced a period of rapid development. Faced with soaring prices of raw materials. As prices have become the theme, in order to successfully run a flexo business, we must focus our efforts on how to achieve profitability.

This not only requires you to maintain customers and improve the quality of production, but also requires you to find a very effective way to control the cost of flexo printing. The following is a brief description of several ways to effectively control the cost of flexo printing companies:

First, reduce the waste of prepress materials

By installing the private service unit on the printing press, the substrates needed for registering can be reduced, thereby minimizing the loss of press start-up. In this way, printing companies can reduce the waste of materials at each startup and reduce the number of downtimes.

Second, increase the speed of production to reduce expenses

The servo unit installed on the press allows the press to re-register on the preprinted roll and then print extra colors or make design changes. In this way, the printer can run the paper a second or third time at full speed. Increasing production speed means that the press can free up more time for more profitable jobs.

Third, the use of high quality, long life squeegee

The use of a high-quality, long-life squeegee can reduce the amount of squeegee used by a printer by one-third each year. In addition, it also saves the time for changing the squeegee in each workbench and the number of times the printer is turned on and off, which can effectively reduce the waste of printing consumables and substrates, and reduce the cost of flexo printing.

Fourth, reduce the number of downtime

Reducing the number of downtimes can reduce the waste of the substrate, because every time you turn on the power, you need to re-register and it is relatively easy to cause material waste. The more you stop the machine, the more time you waste and the more you need to spend. By installing the servo unit for the old printing press, the operator can better control the operation of the printing press and reduce the number of downtime commissionings, thereby reducing the printing cost.

As long as the flexographic printing companies can carry out production in an orderly way according to the above methods, it is believed that they can effectively control the operating costs of the company and achieve the purpose of achieving profitability.