Digital printing and gravure

Digital Printing and Gravure

1, What are digital printing and gravure printing?

 

Both of them are methods for printing packing bags. Digital printing is a method that you can print on any media based on a digital image from computer and dont need to draw support from extra things. While gravure printing requires us to make cylinders first, which means we need to gravure the designs into a metal plate, then we use it and ink for printing, normally one color one cylinder. And once you want to change any contents of your design, you will need to make a new cylinder.

Digital printing:

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Gravure printing:

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2, What are the differences between digital printing and gravure printing?

 

Printing effect:

The biggest difference between digital printing and gravure printing is that digital printing does not need any cylinders for printing. If for a simple bag, you can hardly find the differences between them, but if for complex designs, gravure printing will always be the best choice.

 

Cost:

 Its hard to say which one costs less, its all depends. For example, you have 10 designs, you only want 1000 pcs for each design to test the market, you are not sure which design will be preferred by market, then digital printing is a good choice. No need to make cylinders, you can change the contents any time, and you can do small quantity all the time. But some day you find three of the designs are popular, and you want to have like 50,000 pcs for each, then you will find gravure printing seems to be nice to you, especially you only need to pay one time for cylinder, next time when you reorder the same design, no more cylinder cost, you will find the unit price will be much lower than digital printing.

 

Production time:

From the methods of how they print we can know digital printing spends less time than gravure printing, at least people dont need to spend time to make cylinders for digital printing. But thats also depend on quantity, if for big quantity, nearly no difference.

 

 

3, Which one is better?

 

What exists is reasonable. We can not say which one is better, digital printing or gravure printing? What suits is the best. You just need to choose the right method according to your situation. Of course, if you feel trouble on this, just come to me, i will make Comparison and do budget for you.


Post time: Sep-27-2020