The advantage of the Flexo printing

In our food packing industry, we use Offset printing and Flexo printing for the Paper Coffee cups and Paper food container. While do you know the difference between these two kinds printing methods, and how can we choose the printing methods?

Offseting printing is mainly used for the paper based material printing. There are many limitations for printing on the plastic film. But they can print more colors than the Flexo printing.  It's suitable for the small amount products printing, Another reason is offseting print costs more than Flexo printing, because the oil based ink is more expensive than the waterbased link. 

So these are the advantages of the Flexo printing:

1. The equipment structure is simple and it is easy to form a production line. In the three major printing equipments of offset, concave and flexo printing, the flexo printing machine is the simplest structure. Therefore, the price of the flexo press is relatively low, and the investment in the printing enterprise equipment is small. At the same time, due to the simple equipment, easy to use and easy to maintain.
2. Widly used in the paper packing areas. At present, most of the flexo printing machines are connected with processing technologies such as soup gold, glazing, cutting, slitting, die cutting, indentation, punching, window opening, etc. to form a production line. Greatly improve labor productivity.
3.  The scope of application and a wide range of substrates. Flexo printing can print almost all prints and use all substrates. Especially in corrugated printing in packaging and printing, there is uniqueness.
4.  Water-based inks are eco-friendly. Among the three major printing methods of offset printing, gravure printing and flexo printing, only water-based inks are widely used in flexo printing. Non-toxic and non-polluting, it is beneficial to protect the environment, especially suitable for packaging and printing.