Analyze the development process of China's multicolor offset printing press

After a certain amount of capital has been accumulated, printing companies no longer satisfy the quality of monochromatic overprinting and low production efficiency. The commercial short-run printing function of small-sized lithographic printing presses has been recognized by users, so the development of two-color, multi-function and multi-color printing presses has been developed. . The miniaturization and privatization of fast printing companies and the growing demand for short-run commercial prints further promote the growth of fast-printing companies. According to relevant statistics, there are 20,000 companies engaged in rapid short-run printing in China, and about 30,000 small-sized offset printers. This is a large market and it is a growing market. With the transformation of small lithographic printers from monochrome to multicolor, a commercial short-run color printing market is taking shape. In 2004, the production and sales volume of two-color machines and multi-color machines has reached a considerable scale, and it is foreseeable that the golden season of commercial short-version color printing equipment has arrived.

The demand for small offset printing presses in the printing industry is a bit like that of the home appliance industry and the home car industry. With the improvement of living standards, the speed of replacement is accelerating, and so is the printing industry. With the accumulation of capital in printing companies, the quality of printed materials has been continuously improved and unconsciously entered the color era. The increase in the number of multi-color printing presses can be seen from the production, sales volume and import volume of polychromatic machines of a group of printing machinery manufacturers.

The development of multi-color small lithographic printing presses has undergone an extraordinary process due to the development and cultivation of the market.

The initial market for multicolor small offset printing presses has been monopolized by foreign manufacturers. Imported equipment is mainly concentrated in Japan's Ryobi, Hamada, Gongyao, and Heidelberg in Germany. In the late 20th century, domestic small offset press manufacturers and printers had predicted the prospect of small offset presses entering commercial short presses and quietly began to design and develop multicolor small offset presses. Around 1996, Beiren Group's No.2 Printing Machinery Factory accumulated design power to develop and design miniature lithographic printing press products, and monochrome, dual-color, multi-function, multi-colored small lithographic printing presses were put into production as planned, and the prototyping of multiple color machines was completed. After long-term application tests conducted by users, although a lot of experience has been accumulated, the market has not been formed at the end of the year, manufacturing technology is not yet complete, and small-scale trial production has not been conducted. There is also a MasterCard printing plant, which has Heidelberg’s GTO52 multi-colored small lithographic printing press. The market prospect of this type of equipment is forecasted. A group of technical personnel are organized by self-financing to design and trial production of 10 multi-colored small lithographic printings. The machine was widely publicized in the media. Similarly, due to the fact that the market has not yet formed, the level of technology, etc., after the sale of a part of the equipment, the technology is sold to another company and the production is stopped. For the market prospects of multi-color small lithographic printing presses, people of insight have not wavered, and two companies have entered the field. At that time, the industry’s followers had learned that some companies were engaged in multi-color small offset printing presses, but most people did not know it.