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In the corrugated box industry, the key to choosing a printing machine is to balance production efficiency, cost, and order demand. Traditional printing machines, such as flexographic printing, are suitable for large quantities and long form orders, while digital inkjet printing is more in line with the current trend of small batches, personalization, and fast turnover.

What are the types and characteristics of printing machines?
The following are the types and characteristics of printing machines:

Why is the printing machine the preferred choice for the corrugated box industry?

We can analyze in detail from the following points:
1. The absolute king of production efficiency
Traditional corrugated box printing (such as screen printing) is a single machine operation with cumbersome processes. Modern corrugated box printing machines, especially the printing slotting and die-cutting linkage line, integrate multiple processes into one:
Paper feeding ->printing ->slotting ->die-cutting ->stacking output
The entire process is seamless and highly automated. A linkage line can produce hundreds of cardboard boxes per minute, which is incomparable to any traditional standalone equipment. For the e-commerce, logistics, and consumer goods industries that need to deal with massive orders, this high efficiency is fundamental to survival.
2. Unparalleled cost-effectiveness
Low labor cost: The linkage line only requires a small number of operators, replacing the large number of workers required in various single machine processes, greatly reducing labor and management costs.
Low comprehensive loss: Due to the reduction of intermediate handling, alignment and other links, the cardboard loss rate during the production process is minimized. In the low profit, high-volume cardboard box industry, every penny of material savings is directly converted into profit.
3. Perfectly match the characteristics of corrugated cardboard
Corrugated cardboard is made by pasting surface paper, corrugated core paper, and inner paper, with an uneven surface and relatively loose material. Flexographic printing has natural advantages in this regard:
Flexible printing plate: The printing plate is soft and elastic, and even on corrugated paper with slight surface undulations, it can achieve good ink transfer through slight deformation, ensuring the integrity and clarity of the printed pattern.
Water based ink: Flexographic printing mainly uses fast drying and environmentally friendly water-based ink. This type of ink has good permeability, can dry quickly, and will not collapse the corrugated paper due to ink accumulation, affecting the physical strength of the cardboard box.
4. Meet the core needs of modern markets
Today's corrugated cardboard boxes are no longer just transportation packaging, they are themselves "mobile billboards".
Brand Display: The rise of e-commerce has made every aspect of a product, from the warehouse to the hands of consumers, crucial. A beautifully printed cardboard box with a prominent logo can greatly enhance brand image and user experience.
Information bearing: In addition to the brand logo, a large amount of content such as product information, usage instructions, QR codes, environmental protection signs, and handling warnings need to be printed on the cardboard box. Printing machines can efficiently and clearly complete these tasks.
Customization and flexibility: Modern printing machines can quickly replace printing plates and adjust sizes, easily handling small batches and multiple varieties of orders, meeting the growing demand for personalized and customized packaging in the market.
Disadvantages compared to other printing methods
To better understand why printing machines are the preferred choice, you can take a look at why other methods are not applicable:
Offset printing: Although the printing accuracy is extremely high, it requires printing on glossy copperplate paper first, and then mounting the printed paper onto corrugated cardboard. Due to multiple processes, high costs, and low efficiency, it is only suitable for small batches of high-quality boxes that require extremely high printing quality.
Screen printing: The ink layer is thick and the colors are bright, but the speed is extremely slow and the color matching is difficult. It is suitable for handmade production in very small quantities and cannot meet the needs of industrial production.
Digital printing: This is a new trend that has emerged in recent years and is rapidly developing in the field of small batch and ultra personalized printing. However, its current single box cost is still higher than that of flexographic printing, and it cannot shake the absolute dominant position of flexographic printing in mass production in terms of production speed and consumable costs.

So, the reason why printing machines (especially flexographic printing linkage lines) have become the preferred choice in the corrugated box industry is because they have found the best balance point in the three core dimensions of industrial production: efficiency, cost, and adaptability.
It is like a highly precise industrial mother machine, transforming the labor-intensive production of corrugated cardboard boxes into an efficient, automated, and replicable modern manufacturing process, perfectly meeting the ultimate requirements of the globalization and e-commerce era for packaging to be "fast, good, and cost-effective".