Various printing methods in the packaging and printing industry

Changes in the printing and packaging industry are always there. The materials, plates, and equipment for printing are the same as ordinary printing, and the high quality requirements for printed matter are also necessary.
Almost all printing methods can be used in the packaging industry. Among them, the most used is offset printing, accounting for 45%; followed by flexographic printing, accounting for 28%; then gravure printing, accounting for 20%; other printing methods including digital printing only accounted for 7% of the market share.
The traditional folding carton printing method is mainly offset printing. In Europe, this method has a share of 80% in the industry, and 73% in the United States. Flexo proportion is increasing, this trend mainly from the supplement to the gravure printing defects, there is a part from defects make up for offset, at least in this way compared to gravure, plate-making time and costs are greatly reduced New printing methods such as inkjet and digital printing are still in the early stages of development. If this approach is very practical and effective, it will replace traditional printing methods for packaging and product manufacturers.
In short, the traditional feature of packaging printing is that no traditional printing method is just for packaging printing.
However, changes in design and materials are continuing to make the packaging industry trends and styles are becoming more short-term, in addition to the usual four-color printing, customer demand for more spot colors, such as the need of various types of metallic colors and so on. In this way, there will be many different high-cost methods that need further improvement, such as coating, laminating, hot stamping, die cutting and punching.