Three course through the development of the printing machinery

World Printing Machinery has made great development since the 1980s. In 20 years, the development of the printing machine has gone through three stages.The first stage is the beginning of the 1980s to the early 1990s, this stage is the heyday of the offset printing process development, a large number of offset printing machinery manufacturers worldwide supremacy. Known are: Germany, Heidelberg, MAN Roland, KBA, Miller (Miller), the former East Germany's Planeta (Planeta), Bo Lv Graf (Polygraph), Japan Komori, Hamada, Akiyama, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Arizona (in Solna, Sweden), Italy the Ou Musuo (OMSCA), Nebbiolo (Nebiolo), the United States, Harris (HARRIS) and so on. This period of sheetfed offset printing speed of 10 000 printed / hour. A four-color printing presses, pre-adjustment time is generally about two hours. Press automatic control is mainly focused on the automatic knot paper, auto paper, auto cleaning, ink automatically detects the amount of ink automatically adjust and remote registration. This period, in addition to monochrome, two-color machine, sheetfed offset press manufacturer almost all four-color machine manufacturing capacity, most manufacturers are able to manufacture paper tilting mechanism, two-sided printing.The second stage is the beginning of the 1990s to the late 20th century. Into the 1990s, a sheetfed offset press as a symbol, design and manufacture of printing machinery in the international level a big step forward. Germany, Heidelberg, MAN Roland, KBA and Komori of Japan, have introduced their respective next-generation representative of models. Compared with the first stage of the model, the speed of a new generation of models to further improve, 10000 India / hour to 15,000 printed / hour, pre-press pre-adjust the time by about two hours of the first phase of the greatly shortened to 15 minutes or so. The level of automation and production efficiency of the machines has greatly improved.Printing machinery into the 21st century ushered in the third stage of development. Currently, sheetfed offset some models can reach 17000-18000 printed / hour, but the manufacturers do not aggressively pursue the maximum printing speed of printing presses to improve, but through the application of IT to further shorten makeready time pursuit of higher productivity and the replacement of live time.Become the focus of development in the printing machinery automation, network, production integrated, digital workflow and management information systems (MIS) of the link. Heidelberg CP2000 automatic control system in addition to the whole machine to the paper, feed and guide the paper, ink, water, version, registration, cleaning, drying, glazing coating, dusting and received certificates of compliance and each aspects of the work is preset, control and fault diagnosis, but also printing companies all production process network, online transmission prepress image processing data (CIP3/PPF or CIP4/JDF data). MAN Roland's PECOM system, Komori system DoNet the KBA's OPERA system also has a similar function. The new century, most of the offset press manufacturers have developed the DI digital press. Such as Komori's Lithrone S40D presses (B1 format), Ryobi the the 3404DI press the KBA 74Karat models, the Heidelberg SM74DI type printing press (B2 format) and the fifth generation of Heidelberg fast sit-in Type --- QMDI46-4Pro machines (B3 format). In addition, in order to adapt to the demand for high-end color print, 8 color groups and even group of 10-color multi-color group of two-sided printing, additional on-line finishing functions all kinds of sheet-fed offset press (including a small offset press, DI direct The development trend of the plate-making machines and large offset press), and the technology matured, the type of press has begun to squeeze originally belonged to the part of the web press market.According to the European printing and paper processing machinery manufacturers associations (EUMAPRINT) statistics show that, due to the impact of the global economic downturn, the seven countries, including Germany, France, the United States, Italy, Switzerland and other printing machinery and equipment sales in 2002 decreased compared to 2001 13.08%. From the analysis of economic sentiment index, Europe, America and China, Russia, Japan and other 11 countries, only China, Russia is a rising trend, the rest were dropped, including German sales of approximately $ 6.8 billion in 2002 compared with 2001 declined by 12%; U.S. sales of approximately $ 2.27 billion, decreased by 16% compared to 2001; England's 2002 sales fell 24 percent in 2001, approximately $ 1,064,000,000; Italy fell by 8% approximately $ 763 million. 2001, annual output value of printing machinery and equipment of the top five countries: Germany, $ 7.73 billion, Japan $ 3.918 billion, U.S. $ 2.702 billion, Britain $ 1.4 billion, Italy $ 829 million. Printing machinery and equipment exports before 2001, five countries were: Germany $ 6.325 billion, Japan $ 1.578 billion, U.S. $ 1.246 billion, Italy $ 1.06 billion, Britain $ 940 million. 6 of the 2001 printing machinery and equipment imports: U.S. $ 2.2 billion, China $ 1.3 billion, Germany $ 1.228 billion, Italy $ 922 million, Britain $ 920 million, Japan $ 798 million. Chinese printing machinery market in 2002, spent a single printing machinery and equipment sales increased 13.8% to become the battleground of the world's printing and printing equipment manufacturer.According to the latest statistics of the printing branch of the German Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers Association (VDMA), the 2003 German printing machinery industry output value of about 7 billion euros, lower than in 2002, 13 percent. Which accounted for 4.8 billion euros printing machinery and paper processing machinery accounted for 1.1 billion euros, the rest of the paper production machinery. Printing technology in Germany continued to hold the leading position in the world, its global market share of over 30%, exports up to 80%, mainly exported to the United States, China and the EU member states. German exports to China Printing Machinery in 2003 370 million euros, accounting for 9.8% of the total exports of the German printing machinery, China has become the second largest single export market for German printing machinery. The United States remains the largest importer of German printing machinery, accounting for 1/6 of the total exports of the German printing machinery.