Design and Printing of Business Cards (3)

Required equipment

The name card printing is a special printing industry, with its own special production equipment, special technical requirements, and a special production environment. The business card printing has also attracted a large number of people from the country to enter the industry because of its simple equipment, convenient operation, low investment, rapid return, and low starting point, which also caused a large demand for business card equipment. At present, there are many manufacturers of business card devices in China, and the brand and performance of similar products are also rich and colorful, which greatly promotes the development of the business card printing industry. If you are interested in the existing business card printing equipment, we will use the business card printing front, middle and rear printing methods as follows.

Prepress equipment

In the early stage of business card printing, the business card needs to be designed and typeset. Business card design and layout need to have computers, laser printers, scanners, printing machines and other equipment to complete.

1. Computers: Modern computers have been widely used in the business card printing industry. It can be said that without a computer, business card printing will not be completed. The computer is mainly used for business card design and layout, business card design for the square inch art, seemingly simple, but much more difficult than the average graphic design; text typesetting is also due to a small amount of text, limited range of changes, it is not easy to discharge bright layout . Fortunately, most of the business card users do not value a lot of time and money to design business cards. Business card design has low requirements for computers. All computers currently available on the market can be used for business card production.

2. Scanners: Business card makers can not be separated from the scanner. Some of the logos, patterns, and photographs of the business card must be entered into the computer using the scanner, and further modified, processed and then typeset.

3, laser printers: laser printers and computers, is an indispensable device for business card production, laser printers can proofreading, can replace the simple business card should output the film, more directly to the design and arrangement of good business cards printed to the dedicated Business cards are made directly from business cards. At present, domestic business card makers mainly use HP series black laser printers and QSM color laser printers.

4, Shai Banji: The production of offset printing business cards must use Shai Banji. The main purpose of the plate-making machine is to print the film output from the computer and the pattern on the transfer paper to the PS printing plate for business card printing. To make a special business card, you must also use a printing machine to print the pattern on a screen printing plate for business card printing, and use it for a screen printing machine.

Printing Equipment

Business card printing uses different printing methods because of its different printing media. Computer business card paper must be printed using a laser printer; boxed business card paper must use a business card offset printing; special business card media must use screen printing machine printing.

1. Laser printers: Laser printers mainly print computer laser business cards in business card printing. Because of the different machines used in each business card printing store, black laser printing and true color laser printing can be divided. At present, the business card printing shop is mainly using black laser printing. Now, as the price of true color laser printers (note that it is not an "ink jet" machine) has fallen, it has become more and more a trend.

2, business card offset press: It is one of the traditional business card printing equipment, it uses a large offset printing principle, the use of PS version and precise overprint, the use of printing ink, you can print a true color business card, printing is not as good as a color laser printer, and The operation is very complicated.

3, screen printing machine: can print all the plane and curved media, especially suitable for printing metal and plastic. Special business cards cannot be bent because of their large thickness, and they cannot be used in offset printing machines. They can only be printed using screen printing machines. Screen printers use screen printing plates and screen printing inks.

Postpress equipment

Some business cards must be reprocessed after printing. Some of the computer business cards need to be plastic sealed, and all computer business cards must be cut into business cards before they can be used. Some business cards need to be gilded to show nobleness and style.

1. Laminator: The thin computer business card paper must be thickened by plastic to be used normally. In the business card industry, a large number of 320-type business card special-purpose plastic laminating machines are used.

2. Paper Cutter: Cut the processed business card paper so that the paper can be cut.

3, 切卡刀: After the plastic or plastic plastic computer card cutting, made of business cards.

4, hot stamping machine: The need for gold foil business card bronzing.