Flexographic printing presses are letterpress printing equipment that uses flexible printing plates and anilox rollers for ink transfer. With their environmentally friendly inks and wide printability, their core applications are currently concentrated in the packaging printing field, but they also extend to some commercial printing scenarios. Specific applications are as follows:
Food Packaging This is one of the most important application scenarios for flexographic printing presses, thanks to their use of water-based/UV low-VOC inks, which meet food safety and environmental protection standards.
Common Applications: Pre-printing/direct printing on various food plastic packaging bags, paper cups, paper bowls, paper lunch boxes, cake boxes, paper bags, and corrugated boxes. It can also print food packaging labels, clearly displaying information such as production date, nutritional information, and brand logo.
Advantages: High printing speed (up to 500m/min for satellite models), capable of inline printing, die-cutting, and lamination processes, meeting the needs of large-scale food packaging production.
Labels and Specialty Paper Products Flexographic printing presses are highly adaptable to materials such as self-adhesive labels and films, making them the mainstream equipment for label printing:
They are widely used in self-adhesive label and trademark printing, supporting the printing of specialty inks such as metallic colors and opaque white, and can achieve up to 12-color printing, adapting to different production batches from low to high.
They are also used for printing everyday paper products such as paper bags, milk/beverage cartons, disposable cups, and adhesive tape packaging paper. Most common packaging labels in our lives are produced by flexographic printing presses.
