Review article
Packaging Printing Today
Stanislav Bolanča
; Faculty of Graphic Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Igor Majnarić
; Faculty of Graphic Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Kristijan Golubović
; Faculty of Graphic Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Printing packaging covers today about 50% of all the printing products. Among the
printing products there are printing on labels, printing on flexible packaging, printing
on folding boxes, printing on the boxes of corrugated board, printing on glass packaging,
synthetic and metal ones. The mentioned packaging are printed in flexo printing
technique, offset printing technique, intaglio halftone process, silk – screen printing,
ink ball printing, digital printing and hybrid printing process. The possibilities of particular
printing techniques for optimal production of the determined packaging were
studied in the paper. The problem was viewed from the technological and economical
aspect. The possible printing quality and the time necessary for the printing realization
were taken as key parameters. An important segment of the production and the way
of life is alocation value and it had also found its place in this paper. The events in the
field of packaging printing in the whole world were analyzed. The trends of technique
developments and the printing technology for packaging printing in near future were
also discussed
Keywords
packaging; offset; flexo; screen printing; digital printing
Hrčak ID:
154988
URI
Publication date:
23.12.2015.
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